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224 quotes (Page 2 of 9 pages)Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Temptation
Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History and Historians
Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Argument
Oscar Wilde
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
Beggars
Oscar Wilde
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Daughters
Oscar Wilde
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde
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Bad manners make a journalist.
Journalism and Journalists
Oscar Wilde
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Charity
Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Conversation
Oscar Wilde
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Cries and Crying
Oscar Wilde
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Leisure
Oscar Wilde
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy
Oscar Wilde
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Despotism
Oscar Wilde
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Discontent
Oscar Wilde
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Dullness
Oscar Wilde
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Disciples
Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Painters and Painting
Oscar Wilde
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Women
Oscar Wilde
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Teachers and Teaching
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Mistakes
Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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