Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Education is an...

Oscar Wilde: Education is an...

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no sin except stupidity.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2...

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Oscar Wilde: No work of...

Oscar Wilde: No work of...

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Oscar Wilde: I have found...

Oscar Wilde: I have found...

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...

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Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...

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Oscar Wilde: It is because...

Oscar Wilde: It is because...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...

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Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...

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Oscar Wilde: Simple pleasures ....

Oscar Wilde: Simple pleasures ....

Simple pleasures . . . are the last refuge of the complex.

Source: A Woman of No...

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Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything...

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Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...

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Oscar Wilde: Society often forgives...

Oscar Wilde: Society often forgives...

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the...

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Oscar Wilde: Each man kills...

Oscar Wilde: Each man kills...

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Source: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' [For...

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Oscar Wilde: If this is...

Oscar Wilde: If this is...

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Oscar Wilde: Whatever, in fact,...

Oscar Wilde: Whatever, in fact,...

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to...

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Oscar Wilde: Anybody can write...

Oscar Wilde: Anybody can write...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and...

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Oscar Wilde: Whatever harsh criticisms...

Oscar Wilde: Whatever harsh criticisms...

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of...

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Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...

Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
MRS ALLONBY. It ends with...

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Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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