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OSCAR WILDE QUOTES
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by
moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest
of the world.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always
have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease
to be popular.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense,
and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets
are one's mistakes.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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