To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Citations by Oscar Wilde
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
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Anybody can be good in the country.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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