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Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.




Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.




Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.




Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . ."

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.




Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it."

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree."

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written."

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Biography lends to death a new terror."

Biography lends to death a new terror.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them."

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "To be popular one must be a mediocrity."

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I don't want to earn a living. I want to live."

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Only good questions deserve good answers."

Only good questions deserve good answers.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary."

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly."

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure."

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?"

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I have nothing to declare except my genuis."

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized"

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good."

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Genius lasts longer than beauty"

Genius lasts longer than beauty



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it."

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining."

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love."

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "A mutual misunderstanding."

A mutual misunderstanding.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream."

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never."

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering."

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things."

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them."

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy."

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach."

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.



Oscar Wilde Quotes: "Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself."

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.