Oscar Wilde

(97 votes)   Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(95 votes)   Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(95 votes)   Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(94 votes)   As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(94 votes)   No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(93 votes)   It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(92 votes)   Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde
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(91 votes)   I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde
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(91 votes)   The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(90 votes)   As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(90 votes)   Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(90 votes)   To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(90 votes)   What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(89 votes)   Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(89 votes)   Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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