Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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Oscar Wilde: My experience is...

Oscar Wilde: My experience is...

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at...

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Oscar Wilde: We can forgive...

Oscar Wilde: We can forgive...

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is...

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Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade...

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Oscar Wilde: To live is...

Oscar Wilde: To live is...

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...

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Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: There is only...

Oscar Wilde: There is only...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor...

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Oscar Wilde: The youth of...

Oscar Wilde: The youth of...

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.

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Oscar Wilde: I have nothing...

Oscar Wilde: I have nothing...

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Source: Comment, 3 Jan 1882, at the New...

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Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...

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Oscar Wilde: Charity creates a...

Oscar Wilde: Charity creates a...

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism,...

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Oscar Wilde: The world has...

Oscar Wilde: The world has...

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Oscar Wilde: Health - silliest...

Oscar Wilde: Health - silliest...

Health - silliest word in our language, and one knows well the popular idea of health the English country gentleman...

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Oscar Wilde: Scepticism is the...

Oscar Wilde: Scepticism is the...

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Source: Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: Cultivated leisure is...

Oscar Wilde: Cultivated leisure is...

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in...

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Oscar Wilde: If property had...

Oscar Wilde: If property had...

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we...

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Oscar Wilde: MRS ALLONBY. They...

Oscar Wilde: MRS ALLONBY. They...

MRS ALLONBY. They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Indeed? And...

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