Quotes
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Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
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.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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The Critic as Artist
NOVEL
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
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The Canterville Ghost
NOVEL
Outcasts always mourn.
Oscar Wilde
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
NOVEL
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
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Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Humanities Books
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscariana
NOVEL
He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.
Oscar Wilde
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Men and Memories
NOVEL
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
NOVEL
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
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Lady Windermere's Fan
NOVEL
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Lady Windermere's Fan
NOVEL
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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Lady Windermere's Fan
NOVEL
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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Lady Windermere's Fan
NOVEL
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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Lady Windermere's Fan
NOVEL