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Small: The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius
Oscar Wilde
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself
Oscar Wilde
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties
Oscar Wilde
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything
Oscar Wilde
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world
Oscar Wilde
"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means
Oscar Wilde
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement
Oscar Wilde
"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities
Oscar Wilde
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both
Oscar Wilde
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected
Oscar Wilde
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know mor
Oscar Wilde
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Only the shallow know themselves
Oscar Wilde
"Only the shallow know themselves"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly
Oscar Wilde
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist
Oscar Wilde
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty
Oscar Wilde
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one
Oscar Wilde
"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"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions
Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess
Oscar Wilde
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance
Oscar Wilde
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection
Oscar Wilde
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes
Oscar Wilde
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art
Oscar Wilde
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating
Oscar Wilde
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious
Oscar Wilde
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin
Oscar Wilde
"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead
Oscar Wilde
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability
Oscar Wilde
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability
Oscar Wilde
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share
Oscar Wilde
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works
Oscar Wilde
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the
Oscar Wilde
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life
Oscar Wilde
"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months
Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Experience is one thing you cant get for nothing
Oscar Wilde
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching
Oscar Wilde
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future
Oscar Wilde
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community
Oscar Wilde
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same
Oscar Wilde
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friends
Oscar Wilde
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, i
Oscar Wilde
"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, Dramatist
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