Quote by Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth centu

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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

If one plays good music, people dont listen and if one plays bad music people dont talk. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. – Oscar Wilde

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Color
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, its what makes life interesting and suspenseful. – Jeanne Moreau

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Death

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude

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Death

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Death

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. – Henry Miller

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Death

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Daltons records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov

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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. – Jane Seymour

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I like that band Get Hustle. Theyre cool live. I havent heard their records, though. – Stephen Malkmus

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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know its bold. Its out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background its hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. – Newt Gingrich

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