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Quotations by author » Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
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Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Doing nothing is hard work.
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Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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