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Certain Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
- Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
- I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
- Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and…
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