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Oscar Wilde

Society
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
4.5 · 47 votes · 168 reads
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Feelings
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
3.8 · 51 votes · 23 reads
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Virtues
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
3.1 · 32 votes · 98 reads
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Various
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
3.6 · 47 votes · 95 reads
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Feelings
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
4.2 · 36 votes · 125 reads
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Feelings
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
4.9 · 19 votes · 36 reads
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Various
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the se
4.1 · 5 votes · 50 reads
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Art and Culture
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
5.0 · 14 votes · 50 reads
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Various
Who, being loved, is poor?
4.3 · 64 votes · 122 reads
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Defects
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
4.0 · 41 votes · 91 reads
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Various
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
3.3 · 23 votes · 117 reads
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Various
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
3.0 · 45 votes · 123 reads
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Nature
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
3.1 · 23 votes · 0 reads
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Society
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
3.6 · 21 votes · 4 reads
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Society
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
3.0 · 46 votes · 139 reads
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Society
Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
3.4 · 32 votes · 54 reads
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Feelings
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
4.5 · 57 votes · 69 reads
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Government and Politics
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
3.4 · 12 votes · 120 reads
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Time
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
3.3 · 24 votes · 40 reads
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