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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

By Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

By Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

By Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

By Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

By Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.

By Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

By Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

By Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

By Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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

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There is no sin except stupidity.

By Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

By Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?

By Oscar Wilde
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.

By Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it...

By Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the une...

By Oscar Wilde
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact ...

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My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly,...

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too cle...

By Oscar Wilde
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

By Oscar Wilde
I walked, with other souls in pain,

By Oscar Wilde
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

By Oscar Wilde
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

By Oscar Wilde
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

By Oscar Wilde
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Work

By Oscar Wilde