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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Nothing succeeds like success.»
«He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.»
«It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.»
«Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.»
«To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.»
«When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.»
«The greatest of all sins is stupidity.»
«Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.»
«The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.»
«Something was dead in each of us,/ And what was dead was Hope.»