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Those who try to lead the peo...

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Marco Polo had seen the inhab...

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Whatever, in fact, is modern ...

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Romance lives by repetition, ...

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

We spend our days, each one o...

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

To be good, according to the ...

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Life is not governed by will ...

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I usually say what I really t...

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Tread Lightly, she is near Un...

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

As a wicked man I am a comple...

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

God, bless me with luxury. Ne...

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I live constantly in the fear...

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

If it took Labouchere three c...

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It is a vulgar error to suppo...

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I hate vulgar realism in lite...

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The fact is, that civilizatio...

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

If people are dishonest once,...

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I love scrapes. They are the ...

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

When one is in town one amuse...

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Even men of the noblest possi...

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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