Some quotes from Oscar Wilde. The greatest authority on aestheticism and sarcasm. His radical writings are invaluable.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are eithercharming or tedious.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it isabsolutely fatal.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter itevery six months
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elsesopinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I can resist everything except temptation
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Excellent collection of quotes! Radical indeed! Loved them and read them over and over atleast 10 times...each one of them makes you think so much!
I loved this one like anything:
"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."
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