Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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In married life three is company and two none... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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