Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

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Pessimist One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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There is no such thing as good influence.

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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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