620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 441. The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. ...
- 442. The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of ...
- 443. The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g ...
- 444. The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet dis ...
- 445. The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
- 446. The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
- 447. The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin ...
- 448. The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
- 449. The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
- 450. The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He sho ...
- 451. The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates
- 452. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, th ...
- 453. The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is ...
- 454. The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good e ...
- 455. The man who calls a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for
- 456. The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
- 457. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- 458. The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifele ...
- 459. The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all ...
- 460. The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged ...
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