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Oscar Wilde Quotes


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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
[Art]

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

None knew so well as I:

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
[Acceptance]


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