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World Quotes by Oscar Wilde

124 World quotes by Oscar Wilde

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The books that the world calls immoral, notes Wilde, reveal its own shame. He also says a good friend opens a whole new world for you. After a few drinks, he jokes that the first glass shows what we wish, the second shows what isn’t, and the third shows reality.

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“She is all the great heroines of the world in one.”

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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I walk the world in wonder.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”

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“We are all our own demon, and we make this world are hell.”

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one…

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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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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a…

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them,…

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have…

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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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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts…

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as…

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that,…

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You…

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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the…

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal…

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I…

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall…

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the…

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

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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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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…

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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.

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

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