Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeI was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar WildeTags: comma misattributed-gustave-flaubert proofreading
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeMusic makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar WildeTo disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar WildeTags: sinister
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar WildeTags: life
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
Oscar WildeOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar WildeWords! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
Oscar WildeAlcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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