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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde

There are beauties all around you. All you have to do is look to reveal them. — Debasish Mridha

All bad art is the result of good intentions. — Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. — Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest

There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view. — Oscar Wilde

Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me
with us all
and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made. — Oscar Wilde

as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century — Oscar Wilde

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. — Oscar Wilde

All charming people are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde

I am all expectation. — Oscar Wilde

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads. — Mark Forsyth

The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life. — Debasish Mridha

Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart. — Debasish Mridha

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them. — Oscar Wilde

I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends. — Oscar Wilde

All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime — Oscar Wilde

Were there no law there'd be no law-breakers, So all men would be virtuous. — Oscar Wilde

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all. — Oscar Wilde

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. — Oscar Wilde

The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation — Oscar Wilde

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that — Oscar Wilde

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. — Oscar Wilde

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool. — David Levithan

The greatest of all sins is stupidity. — Oscar Wilde

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. — Oscar Wilde

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. — Oscar Wilde

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. — Oscar Wilde

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. — Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times — Oscar Wilde

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

One pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone. — Oscar Wilde

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love — Oscar Wilde

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. — Oscar Wilde

All criticism is a form of autobiography — Oscar Wilde

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. — Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. — Oscar Wilde

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others. — Oscar Wilde

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

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. — Oscar Wilde

The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public. — Oscar Wilde

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, — Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment. — Oscar Wilde

The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none. — Debasish Mridha

Conscience makes egotists of us all. — Oscar Wilde

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

All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE — Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde

How ugly it all was! And how horribly real ugliness made things! He felt a little annoyed with Lord Henry for having — Oscar Wilde

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. — Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. — Oscar Wilde

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter. — Vann Chow

All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde

I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life — Oscar Wilde

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life. — Oscar Wilde

All influence is immoral — Oscar Wilde

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? — Oscar Wilde

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. — Oscar Wilde

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. — Oscar Wilde

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. — Oscar Wilde

All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in. — Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde

Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde

When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. — Oscar Wilde

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. — Oscar Wilde

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time. — Debasish Mridha

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. — Oscar Wilde

Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions? — Oscar Wilde

We women love with our ears just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. — Oscar Wilde

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature. — Oscar Wilde

All I want now is to look at life. — Oscar Wilde

And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand. — Oscar Wilde

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic. — Oscar Wilde

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. — Oscar Wilde

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable. — Oscar Wilde

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do. — Oscar Wilde

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. — Oscar Wilde

Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?'
'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. — Jamie O'Neill

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde

All trials are trials for one's life. — Oscar Wilde

If a book isn't worth reading over and over again, it isn't worth reading at all. — Oscar Wilde

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — Oscar Wilde

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping. — Oscar Wilde

You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate — Debasish Mridha

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs. — Oscar Wilde