Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But...

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty,...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty,...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry...

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry...

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the...

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the...