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Quotations by author » Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
CynicismValue
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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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 colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.
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What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
FunnyInsincerityPsychologywitty
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
HopeOptimism
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
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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.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
LovePreparation
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Men and Women
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Marriage
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
America and Americans
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it
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