| 523 Famous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Senses Quotes |
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“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Sin Quotes |
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Sincerity Quotes |
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“To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.”
Tact Quotes |
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“Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.”
Taxes Quotes |
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“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.”
Temper Quotes |
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“The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.”
Theater Quotes |
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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.”
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“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Truth Quotes |
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Unworthy Quotes |
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“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
Women Quotes |
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“Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Christianity Quotes |
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“And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks, In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?”
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“Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.”
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“The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.”
Acting Quotes |
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“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
Art and artists Quotes |
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Art and artists Quotes |
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“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
Children / youth Quotes |
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“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Children / youth Quotes |
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“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.”
Communication Quotes |
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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
Confession Quotes |
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Oscar Wilde Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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