Oscar Wilde quotes - page 15

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. (Oscar Wilde)
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. View quote
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I am happy in my prison of passion. View quote
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. View quote
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Wisdom comes with winters. View quote
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. View quote
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. View quote
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. View quote
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. View quote
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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. View quote
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. (Oscar Wilde)
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. View quote
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. View quote
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. View quote
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good. View quote
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. View quote
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. View quote
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I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection. View quote
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. View quote
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. View quote
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
I know. In fact, I am never wrong. View quote
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A mask tells us more than a face. View quote
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. View quote
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Most people are boring and stupid. View quote
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