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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #man

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#adopt #dislike #morality #people #personally

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exactly #extremely #good #holds #opinion

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cannot #century #death #explain #facts

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #i think

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #equally #mob #monarch #necessity

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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