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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  • There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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  • There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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  • There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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  • There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
    De Profundis (1905)
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  • There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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  • There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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  • There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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  • There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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  • There is no sin except stupidity.
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  • There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
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  • There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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  • There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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  • There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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  • There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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  • There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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  • There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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  • They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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  • They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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  • They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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  • Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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