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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  • One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
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  • One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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  • One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
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  • One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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  • One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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  • One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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  • Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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  • Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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  • Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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  • Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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  • People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
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  • People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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  • Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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  • Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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  • Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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  • Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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  • Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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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.
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  • Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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