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Oscar Wilde
I love talking...
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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He had that...
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in...
The pure and...
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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-- Oscar...
To be natural...
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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The books that...
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The best way...
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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-- Oscar...
The old believe...
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
To do nothing...
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most...
A man's very...
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells...
The only thing...
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The liar at...
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more...
The condition of...
The condition of perfection is idleness; the aim of perfection is youth.
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It is only...
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he...
We who live...
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and...
The public have...
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of...
I was disappointed...
I was disappointed in Niagara --most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and...
The well-bred contradict...
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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While one should...
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an...
All trials are...
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
To get into...
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock...