"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes."

Wilde, Oscar on invention and inventor
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"Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London."

Wilde, Oscar on flowers   

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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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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"Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

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

Wilde, Oscar on seriousness
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"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."

Wilde, Oscar on nations
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"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction
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"One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction   

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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

Wilde, Oscar on fathers
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on fantasy
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"And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]"

Wilde, Oscar on famous last words
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

Wilde, Oscar on experts
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury."

La Fontaine, Jean De on patience
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