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Oscar Wilde  Quotes
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

—Oscar Wilde

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Behavior
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I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived...

—Oscar Wilde

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LovePessimismPhilosophy
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what...

—Oscar Wilde

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BeautyHumorMen
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

—Oscar Wilde

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AlcoholDrinking
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

—Oscar Wilde

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Melancholy
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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

—Oscar Wilde

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Ethics
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

—Oscar Wilde

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PowerSex
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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.

—Oscar Wilde

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs...

—Oscar Wilde

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Ambition
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If it was my business, I wouldn’t talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbroker’s do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

—Oscar Wilde

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AlgernonBusinessDinner-Party
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

—Oscar Wilde

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Art
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

—Oscar Wilde

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Emotion
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde

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ArtHumanitySadness
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

—Oscar Wilde

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ActingPlaysTheatre
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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little...

—Oscar Wilde

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.

—Oscar Wilde

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Procrastination
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

—Oscar Wilde

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DevilHellWorld
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

—Oscar Wilde

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ConscienceCowardice
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

—Oscar Wilde

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HumorProcrastination
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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

—Oscar Wilde

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InspirationalWit
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

—Oscar Wilde

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ArtIndividualism
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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

—Oscar Wilde

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MorbidityPainSympathy
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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

—Oscar Wilde

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

—Oscar Wilde

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde

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PlayingWinning
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

—Oscar Wilde

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DreamingDreamsImagination
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JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

—Oscar Wilde

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GentlemenHumorPleasure
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

—Oscar Wilde

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HesitationProcrastination
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The Noblest form of Affection

—Oscar Wilde

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HistoryLoveMale
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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and...

—Oscar Wilde

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LustMonolouge
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something...

—Oscar Wilde

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BeautyJealousyVanity
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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which...

—Oscar Wilde

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BeautyLifeTemptations
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

—Oscar Wilde

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BeautyEvil
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Society–civilized society, at least–is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its...

—Oscar Wilde

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Society
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You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about…anything, which you don’t, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you....

—Oscar Wilde

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HumorMarriage
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

—Oscar Wilde

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BooksReading
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

—Oscar Wilde

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LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in...

—Oscar Wilde

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AgingHumorWomen
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban’s enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban’s fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

—Oscar Wilde

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Insightful
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LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

—Oscar Wilde

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HumorPleasure
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful...

—Oscar Wilde

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ArtCriticismLiterature
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VICOMTE DE NANJAC. And you are younger and more Cbeautiful than ever. How do you manage it?MRS. CHEVELEY. By making it a rule only to talk to per- Yfectly charming people like yourself.

—Oscar Wilde

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CharmingSolutionYoung
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But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest.JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you...

—Oscar Wilde

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MetaphysicsReal-Life
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Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day...

—Oscar Wilde

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AcheBeautyLife
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

—Oscar Wilde

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JournalismPublic-Opinion
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You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality

—Oscar Wilde

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Humourous
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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

—Oscar Wilde

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Logic
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The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

—Oscar Wilde

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ExistentialismLife
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe....

—Oscar Wilde

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HumorLifeLove
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

—Oscar Wilde

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JudgmentLife
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