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Oscar Wilde quotes: The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it. The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't. The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
Oscar Wilde quotes: And each man kills the thing he loves. And each man kills the thing he loves.
Oscar Wilde quotes: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays.
Oscar Wilde quotes: When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The world hates Individualism. The world hates Individualism.
Oscar Wilde quotes: If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart
Oscar Wilde quotes: Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?
Oscar Wilde quotes: If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Oscar Wilde quotes: The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde quotes: As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde quotes: When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile
Oscar Wilde quotes: I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me
Oscar Wilde quotes: Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
Oscar Wilde quotes: There being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence. There being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence.
Oscar Wilde quotes: And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
Oscar Wilde quotes: The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions. The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde. The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Twisted minds are as natural to some people as twisted bodies. Twisted minds are as natural to some people as twisted bodies.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were. I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Details are always vulgar Details are always vulgar
Oscar Wilde quotes: Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory. Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.
Oscar Wilde quotes: We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often,
Oscar Wilde quotes: The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Everything popular is wrong. Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde quotes: It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Nothing worth knowing can be taught. Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde quotes: youth is the one thing worth having. youth is the one
thing worth having.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer. The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer.
Oscar Wilde quotes: O wandering graves! O restless sleep!O silence of the sunless day!O still ravine! O stormy deep!Give up your prey! Give up your prey! O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
Oscar Wilde quotes: While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
Oscar Wilde quotes: 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. 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: Every woman is a rebel. Every woman is a rebel.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself,
Oscar Wilde quotes: The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman. Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I can believe anything provided it is incredible. I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Oscar Wilde quotes: It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure. It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Oscar Wilde quotes: God and other artists are always a little obscure ... God and other artists are always a little obscure ...
Oscar Wilde quotes: You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me. You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde quotes: keep love in your heart keep love in your heart
Oscar Wilde quotes: Your days are your sonnets. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde quotes: It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done, It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,
Oscar Wilde quotes: The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Oscar Wilde quotes: The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Life is too short to learn German Life is too short to learn German
Oscar Wilde quotes: All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE
Oscar Wilde quotes: When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde quotes: To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
Oscar Wilde quotes: It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.] It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
Oscar Wilde quotes: Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde quotes: It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Oscar Wilde quotes: Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.
Oscar Wilde quotes: My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
Oscar Wilde quotes: However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde quotes: A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. Strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde quotes: When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Oscar Wilde quotes: I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde quotes: And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
Oscar Wilde quotes: My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. My wish isn't to mean
everything to everyone
but something to someone.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
Oscar Wilde quotes: I don't want to earn a living, I want to live. I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.
Oscar Wilde quotes: There is nothing like race, is there? There is nothing like race, is there?
Oscar Wilde quotes: The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing. The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
Oscar Wilde quotes: London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Oscar Wilde quotes: LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant. LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.
Oscar Wilde quotes: He did not wring his hands, as doThose witless men who dareTo try to rear the changeling HopeIn the cave of black Despair. He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the changeling Hope
In the cave of black Despair.
Oscar Wilde quotes: Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you. Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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