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Quotations by author » Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Ideas
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
AgePleasureYouth
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
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And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development
Ideas
Anybody can be good in the country
CountryMankind
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
History
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Arguments
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing
Arguments
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art
Art never expresses anything but itself.
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