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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  • The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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  • The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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  • The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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  • The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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  • The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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  • The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
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  • The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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  • The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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  • The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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  • The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
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  • The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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  • The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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  • The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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  • The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
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  • The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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  • The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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  • The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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  • The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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  • The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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  • There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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