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Oscar Wilde

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation." — Oscar Wilde
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Death    Irish Dramatist   

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"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again." — Oscar Wilde
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"Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals." — Oscar Wilde
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"Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are" — Oscar Wilde
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." — Oscar Wilde
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Danger    Irish Dramatist   

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"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force." — Oscar Wilde
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Community    Public Opinion   

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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative." — Oscar Wilde
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Conversation    Irish Dramatist   

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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." — Oscar Wilde
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Books And Reading   

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"Bad manners make a journalist." — Oscar Wilde
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"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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Courage    Irish Dramatist   

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"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion." — Oscar Wilde
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Innocence   

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"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression." — Oscar Wilde
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Acting And Actors   

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"No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime" — Oscar Wilde
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"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." — Oscar Wilde
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"I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful." — Oscar Wilde
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Beauty   

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"The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding" — Oscar Wilde
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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style." — Oscar Wilde
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Art    Tragedies   

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"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime." — Oscar Wilde
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"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures" — Oscar Wilde
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation" — Oscar Wilde
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"Hatred is blind, as well as love." — Oscar Wilde
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Blindness    Irish Dramatist   

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