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People Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Many people become bankrupt by investing too much in the prose of life, thinking price matters more than value. He jokes that people who only talk about their own business are vulgar, and that most people end up boring and stupid. He also says an artist who only follows demand stops being an artist.

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The only real people are the people who never existed

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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People are either charming or tedious.

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Most people are boring and stupid.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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“none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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To live is the most rarest thing in the world;most people exist,that is all.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite…

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in…

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever…

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely…

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having…

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no…

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had…

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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can…

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight…

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are…

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness…

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to…

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…

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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…

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there…

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My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies…

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes…

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Most people are other people.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…