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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 441-480
441 I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
442 How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
443 Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
444 The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
445 Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
446 I regret the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
447 One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
448 Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
449 You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
450 Imagination is a quality that was given to man to compensate him from what's not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
451 The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
452 Every saint has a past und every sinner has a future.
453 True friends stab you in the front.
454 A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
455 To become a spectator of one's life is to escape the suffering of life.
456 Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
457 It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
458 Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
459 There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
460 Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
461 A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
462 Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
463 I drink to keep body and soul apart.
464 Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
465 Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
466 The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
467 Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
468 I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
469 How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
470 Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
471 To define is to limit.
472 In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
473 Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
474 Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
475 The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
476 More than half of the modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
477 Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
478 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
479 There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
480 One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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