Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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

By: Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents.. 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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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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