Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

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  • Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
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  • Nothing succeeds like success.
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  • Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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  • Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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  • Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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  • Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
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  • Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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  • Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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  • On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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  • On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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  • Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
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  • One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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  • One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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  • One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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  • One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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  • One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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  • One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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  • One should always be a little improbable
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  • One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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