"Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest…" — Oscar Wilde
"Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance"
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1,714 Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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- 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…
- 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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- 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…
- 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…
- Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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