Oscar Wilde quotes - page 35

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag. (Oscar Wilde)
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. View quote
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. View quote
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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. View quote
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Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams. View quote
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now. View quote
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically. ] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. View quote
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Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. View quote
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered. View quote
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important. View quote
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it. (Oscar Wilde)
Lewis Morris It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence What should I do Oscar Wilde Join it. View quote
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Ah well, I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. View quote
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Scandal gossip made tedious by morality. View quote
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. View quote
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. View quote
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If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him. View quote
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. View quote
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. View quote
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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. View quote
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. (Oscar Wilde)
Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end. View quote
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No good deed goes unpunished. View quote
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. View quote
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could. View quote
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