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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Obscenity
Oscar Wilde

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Theater
Oscar Wilde

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
State
Oscar Wilde

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The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
Anxiety
Oscar Wilde

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Truth
Oscar Wilde

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Contradiction
Oscar Wilde

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Plays
Oscar Wilde

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
America
Oscar Wilde

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Misers and Misery
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Misfortunes
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
America
Oscar Wilde

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Royalty
Oscar Wilde

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There is no sin except stupidity.
Sin
Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Morality
Oscar Wilde

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They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Marriage
Oscar Wilde

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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Writers and Writing
Oscar Wilde

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Those whom the gods love grow young.
Youth
Oscar Wilde

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Time is waste of money.
Time and Time Management
Oscar Wilde

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Suffering
Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde

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