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Oscar Wilde
There are only...
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who...
It is only...
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Source: The Picture of...
It is personalities...
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Source: The Picture of Dorian...
No woman should...
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
She is absolutely...
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...
We become lovers...
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,...
I can sympathize...
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Source: The Picture of Dorian...
The value of...
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses...
This suspense is...
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Source: The Importance of Being...
I like to...
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Source:...
Art is not...
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The...
Women represent the...
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over...
All Art is...
All Art is quite useless.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Preface
-- Oscar...
It is confession,...
It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Source: The Picture of...
Women are never...
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...
Democracy means simply...
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
It is grossly...
It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions....
His style is...
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except...
Most people die...
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never...
It is a...
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the...