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13535 quotesThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Children
Oscar Wilde
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books - Reading
Oscar Wilde
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Critics and Criticism
Oscar Wilde
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Fiction
Oscar Wilde
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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Stupidity
Oscar Wilde
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Belief
Oscar Wilde
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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Respectability
Oscar Wilde
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Illusion
Oscar Wilde
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Advice
Oscar Wilde
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Plays
Oscar Wilde
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Genius
Oscar Wilde
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Obscenity
Oscar Wilde
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Theater
Oscar Wilde
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
State
Oscar Wilde
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The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
Anxiety
Oscar Wilde
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde
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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Truth
Oscar Wilde
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Contradiction
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun