Oscar Wilde quotes - page 43

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age. (Oscar Wilde)
Art never expresses anything but itself. View quote
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself. View quote
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Bad manners make a journalist. View quote
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. View quote
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. View quote
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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. These were his dying words. View quote
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers. View quote
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. View quote
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be. View quote
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. (Oscar Wilde)
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. View quote
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Men of thought should have nothing to do with action. View quote
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. View quote
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. View quote
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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. View quote
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. View quote
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. View quote
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. View quote
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I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. View quote
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. (Oscar Wilde)
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets. View quote
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. View quote
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. View quote
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman! View quote
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