Oscar Wilde Quotes

Authority is quite degrading

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All art is quite useless.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster

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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

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As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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