Oscar Wilde

(72 votes)   Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(71 votes)   It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(71 votes)   We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(69 votes)   I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(69 votes)   Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(69 votes)   The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(68 votes)   I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Oscar Wilde
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(68 votes)   There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde
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(68 votes)   While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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

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