But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
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Published before 06/01/2004
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. It can't be questioned: it reigns by divine right.
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Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Oh! Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have absolutely no respect of dyed hair.
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Nothing ages like happiness.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Anybody can be good in the country.
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It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
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