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Oscar Wilde Quotes

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? Picture Quote #1

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering Picture Quote #1

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first Picture Quote #1

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! Picture Quote #1

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history Picture Quote #1

To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life Picture Quote #1

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving Picture Quote #1

Its a beautiful woman’s fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes Picture Quote #1

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them Picture Quote #1

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it Picture Quote #1

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one Picture Quote #1

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing Picture Quote #1

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level Picture Quote #1

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women Picture Quote #1

I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean Picture Quote #1

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine Picture Quote #1

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed Picture Quote #1

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless Picture Quote #1

To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice Picture Quote #1

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties Picture Quote #1

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors Picture Quote #1

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place Picture Quote #1

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train Picture Quote #1

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic Picture Quote #1

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand Picture Quote #1

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded Picture Quote #1

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence Picture Quote #1

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce Picture Quote #1

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering (Oscar Wilde Quotes) When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring (Oscar Wilde Quotes) 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! (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Its a beautiful woman’s fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean (Oscar Wilde Quotes) What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors (Oscar Wilde Quotes) In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded (Oscar Wilde Quotes) He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence (Oscar Wilde Quotes) For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce (Oscar Wilde Quotes)

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