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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Oscar Wilde (2008). “A Woman of No Importance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Oscar Wilde

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.111, Oxford University Press on Demand

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.22, Harvard University Press

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.411, OUP Oxford

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.293, Oxford University Press on Demand

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.107, Mondial

Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press