Oscar Wilde quotes - page 45

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments. (Oscar Wilde)
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. View quote
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. View quote
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One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. View quote
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. View quote
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also. View quote
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . View quote
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost... View quote
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. View quote
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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. View quote
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. (Oscar Wilde)
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest. View quote
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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished. View quote
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. View quote
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. View quote
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I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. View quote
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. View quote
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. View quote
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. View quote
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. View quote
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. (Oscar Wilde)
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. View quote
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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. View quote
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense. View quote
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. View quote
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