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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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murder
humour
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
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Oscar Wilde |
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
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Oscar Wilde |
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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revenge
mediocrities
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God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
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mystery
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
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Vivere e la cosa piu rara nel mondo. Molta gente esiste: ecco tutto.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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personality
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Oscar Wilde |
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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men
humor
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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
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sin
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Oscar Wilde |
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying j..
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What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things? The things that one has done oneself. No, Ernest; life cheats us with shadows, like a puppet- master. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us, with bitterness and disappointment in its train. We come across some noble grief that we think will lend the ..
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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me
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Oscar Wilde |
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I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terribl..
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oscar-wilde
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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humor
pleasure
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Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet a really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures...
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Oscar Wilde |
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The living always think that gold can make them happy
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Oscar Wilde |
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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Oscar Wilde |
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In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsu spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
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Oscar Wilde |
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And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
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salvation
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Oscar Wilde |
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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Oscar Wilde |
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism - are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much ..
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Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,' says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most subtle of all modern critics, most fascinating of all modern poets, was never tired of teaching - 'Everybody is affected by a sunrise or a sunset.' The absolute distinction of the artist is not his capacity to feel nature so much as his power of rendering it. The entire subordination of all int..
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Oscar Wilde |
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The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and defined the boundary line, the more perfect is the work of art; and the less keen and sharp the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism and bungling. 'Great inventors in all ages knew this - Michael Angelo and Albert Durer are known by this and by this alone'; and another time he wrote, with all the simple directness ..
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Oscar Wilde |
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Oscar Wilde |
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
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Oscar Wilde |
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All art is immoral.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Oscar Wilde |