We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
You should study the Peerage. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Nothing ages like happiness.
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Life is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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All thoughts are immoral. Their true essence lies in destruction. Think of something and you kill it. Nothing survives if it is thought.
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