Oscar Wilde Quotes

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• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick,…
• By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
• Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their…
• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
• Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
• There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
• It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
• He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…

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