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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Oscar Wilde |
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Quotes By author - Starting with O - Oscar Wilde
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Subject:
Shallow
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Subject:
Journalism
Media
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Subject:
Life
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Subject:
Truth
Human Nature
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Subject:
Parents
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Subject:
Criticism
Art
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Subject:
Argument & Debate
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Subject:
America
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Subject:
Religious
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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