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It is in the brain that the po...

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

In art, the public accept what...

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He was a hero to his valet, wh...

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I don't mind plain women being...

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Let me be dressed as I will, y...

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The only proper intoxication i...

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Individualism has really the h...

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I don't like principles. I pre...

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Intellectual generalities are ...

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Ethics, like natural selection...

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

We women adore failures. They ...

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The worst vice of the fanatic ...

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The only thing that ever conso...

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The sure way of knowing nothin...

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Married men are horribly tedio...

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Tell the cook of this restaura...

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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The youth of America is their ...

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Whenever cannibals are on the ...

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Really, if the lower orders do...

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

However, it is always nice to ...

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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