Oscar Wilde quotes - page 11

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. (Oscar Wilde)
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. View quote
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. View quote
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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. View quote
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. View quote
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. View quote
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. View quote
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. View quote
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. View quote
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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public. View quote
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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. (Oscar Wilde)
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them. View quote
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
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LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations. View quote
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Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope. View quote
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. View quote
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain. View quote
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I have nothing to declare except my genius. View quote
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One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. View quote
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. View quote
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty. (Oscar Wilde)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. View quote
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. View quote
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Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. View quote
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. View quote
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