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

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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.


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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite...
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice...
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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All art is quite useless.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ...
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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,...
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ...
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom...
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious...
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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 t...
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you wi...
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
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LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi...
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo...
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
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I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
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Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
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And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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