Oscar Wilde

(154 votes)   How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in.

Oscar Wilde

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(150 votes)   Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(145 votes)   Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(144 votes)   The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(140 votes)   As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(139 votes)   I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(136 votes)   Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(135 votes)   The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(130 votes)   Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(125 votes)   Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(124 votes)   I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(120 votes)   As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(120 votes)   I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(120 votes)   The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(118 votes)   One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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