Portrait of Mr. W. H. Quotes

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

– Oscar Wilde

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

– Oscar Wilde

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon we rage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

– Oscar Wilde

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

– Oscar Wilde

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

– Oscar Wilde

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It is always an advantage not to have received a sound commercial education, and what I learned in the playing fields at Eton has been quite as useful to me as anything I was taught at Cambridge.

– Oscar Wilde

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To die for one’s theological beliefs is the worst use a man can make of his life.

– Oscar Wilde

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.

– Oscar Wilde

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