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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 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 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 no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
America
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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Morality
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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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Writers and Writing
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 live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde

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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Socializing and Socialism
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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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Sorrow
Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?
Poverty and The Poor
Oscar Wilde

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Wickedness
Oscar Wilde

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Work
Oscar Wilde

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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Work
Oscar Wilde

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Republican
Oscar Wilde

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Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Public
Oscar Wilde

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
Truth
Billy Wilder

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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Choice
Thornton Wilder

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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
Soldier
Thornton Wilder

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun