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But then one regrets the loss...

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The amount of women in London...

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The truth is never pure and r...

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Artists, like the Greek gods,...

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

A glass of absinthe is as poe...

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

A great poet, a really great ...

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

When I see a spade, I call it...

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He would stab his best friend...

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

To become a spectator of one'...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The truth is rarely pure and ...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Religions die when they are p...

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He is fairer than the morning...

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

An entirely new factor has ap...

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

For, try as we may, we cannot...

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Youth is the only thing worth...

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I don't like novels that end ...

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

In his very rejection of art ...

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Well, one must be serious abo...

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

There should be a law that no...

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

They have been eating muffins...

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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