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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Pray don’t talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous Picture Quote #1

They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too Picture Quote #1

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be Picture Quote #1

Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else Picture Quote #1

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes Picture Quote #1

Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you Picture Quote #1

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world Picture Quote #1

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies Picture Quote #1

So who’s perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated Picture Quote #1

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? Picture Quote #1

Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance Picture Quote #1

I find that forgiving one’s enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it Picture Quote #1

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years Picture Quote #1

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed Picture Quote #1

The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read Picture Quote #1

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives Picture Quote #1

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I’m hostile, and the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal Picture Quote #1

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion Picture Quote #1

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions Picture Quote #1

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart Picture Quote #1

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are Picture Quote #1

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices Picture Quote #1

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one’s own relations Picture Quote #1

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted Picture Quote #1

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend’s achievement Picture Quote #1

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure Picture Quote #1

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development Picture Quote #1

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy Picture Quote #1

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Pray don’t talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies (Oscar Wilde Quotes) So who’s perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I find that forgiving one’s enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I’m hostile, and the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices (Oscar Wilde Quotes) After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one’s own relations (Oscar Wilde Quotes) As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend’s achievement. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. (Oscar Wilde Quotes) London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. (Oscar Wilde Quotes)

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