Oscar Wilde quotes - page 10

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. (Oscar Wilde)
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. View quote
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When good Americans die they go to Paris. View quote
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. View quote
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. View quote
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. View quote
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. View quote
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. View quote
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Tread lightly, she is near; Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear; The daisies grow. (Oscar Wilde)
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. View quote
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. View quote
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For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. View quote
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I know not whether Laws be right Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who live in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. View quote
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. View quote
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. View quote
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole. View quote
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. View quote
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. View quote
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. (Oscar Wilde)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. View quote
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live. View quote
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. View quote
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. View quote
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