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Quotations by author » Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900
Quotes: 201 - 220 of 807 Pages: First ... Previous 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next ... Last
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
Evil
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
Love
Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
MoralitySympathy
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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History is merely gossip
GossipHistory
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
AnniversaryBirthdayHappinessJust BecauseMarriageMenRelationshipsValentine's DaywittyWomen
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
Religion
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
Knowledge
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
ClevernessFunnyT-ShirtUnderstanding
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
EgotismT-Shirtwitty
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible
Belief
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
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