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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 critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Critics and Criticism
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 husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Husbands
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 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 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 well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Contradiction
Oscar Wilde

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Plays
Oscar Wilde

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
America
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Misfortunes
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Royalty
Oscar Wilde

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They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Suffering
Oscar Wilde

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To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Goals
Oscar Wilde

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Mind
Oscar Wilde

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Motives
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