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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life Picture Quote #1

Poets, you know, are always ahead of science; all the great discoveries of science have been stated before in poetry Picture Quote #1

It is indeed a burning shame that there should be one law for men and another law for women... I think that there should be no law for anybody Picture Quote #1

I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence... In the afternoon, I put it back again Picture Quote #1

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell [in Charles Dickens's the Old Curiosity Shop] without laughing Picture Quote #1

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks Picture Quote #1

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It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me Picture Quote #1

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor Picture Quote #1

Don't tell me that you have exhausted life. When a man says that one knows that life has exhausted him Picture Quote #1

Each time one loves is the only time that one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it Picture Quote #1

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die Picture Quote #1

Let me say to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual Picture Quote #1

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change Picture Quote #1

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible Picture Quote #1

The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art Picture Quote #1

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril Picture Quote #1

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are Picture Quote #1

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered Picture Quote #1

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men Picture Quote #1

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures Picture Quote #1

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing Picture Quote #1

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized Picture Quote #1

Genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to overeducate ourselves Picture Quote #1

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul Picture Quote #1

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us Picture Quote #1

I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance Picture Quote #1

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been Picture Quote #1

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared Picture Quote #1

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has it's dreams Picture Quote #1

When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. and one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance Picture Quote #1

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Poets, you know, are always ahead of science; all the great discoveries of science have been stated before in poetry (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is indeed a burning shame that there should be one law for men and another law for women... I think that there should be no law for anybody (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence... In the afternoon, I put it back again (Oscar Wilde Quotes) One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell [in Charles Dickens's the Old Curiosity Shop] without laughing (Oscar Wilde Quotes) We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Don't tell me that you have exhausted life. When a man says that one knows that life has exhausted him (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Each time one loves is the only time that one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Let me say to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art (Oscar Wilde Quotes) All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing (Oscar Wilde Quotes) With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to overeducate ourselves (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance (Oscar Wilde Quotes) At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has it's dreams (Oscar Wilde Quotes) When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. and one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance (Oscar Wilde Quotes)

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