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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Absolute catholicity of taste is not without it's dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Health - silliest word in our language, and one knows well the popular idea of health the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) 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  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach it's pupils to think or to feel  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is because humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find it's way  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else  (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
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