Portal:Oscar Wilde/Selected quote
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| “ | A poet can survive everything but a misprint. | ” |
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—"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette (October 14, 1886) |
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| “ | My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. | ” |
| “ | He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. | ” |
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—"The Birthday of the Infanta," The House of Pomegranates (1892) |
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| “ | Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. | ” |
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—The Critic as Artist (1891) |
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| “ | A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. | ” |
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—"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette (May 30, 1887) |
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| “ | Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. | ” |
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—The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) |
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| “ | To define is to limit. | ” |
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—The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) |
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| “ | I can resist everything except temptation. | ” |
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—Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) |
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