"The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin."

Wilde, Oscar on purity   

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

Wilde, Oscar on prayer
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"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."

Wilde, Oscar on popularity
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"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Wilde, Oscar on seriousness
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"Life would be dull without them."

Wilde, Oscar on mistakes   

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"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on misfortunes   

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."

Wilde, Oscar on lies and lying
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

Wilde, Oscar on interviews
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"Presence is more than just being there."

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"It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat."

Earl Camden on focus   

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

Dixon, Jack on focus
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"Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments."

Wilde, Oscar on life   

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"The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last."

Wilde, Oscar on anxiety
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Wilde, Oscar on misers and misery
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says."

Wilde, Oscar on men   

"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing."

Wilde, Oscar on argument   

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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

Wilde, Oscar on appearance
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

Wilde, Oscar on jealousy
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"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."

Wilde, Oscar on weakness
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"Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people."

Wilde, Oscar on vulgarity
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"Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin."

Wilde, Oscar on vulgarity   

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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on value
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death."

Wilde, Oscar on trials
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"Time is waste of money."

Wilde, Oscar on time   

"I can resist everything except temptation."

Wilde, Oscar on temptation
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