Oscar Wilde

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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Oscar Wilde: Conversation should touch...

Oscar Wilde: Conversation should touch...

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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Oscar Wilde: If they have...

Oscar Wilde: If they have...

If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and...

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Oscar Wilde: A man who...

Oscar Wilde: A man who...

A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.

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Oscar Wilde: Twenty years of...

Oscar Wilde: Twenty years of...

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public...

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Oscar Wilde: I should be...

Oscar Wilde: I should be...

I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.

Source: Explaining why he...

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