There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in?

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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The great thieves punish the little ones.

—Thomas Fuller

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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

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Making weapons is what we know how to do best, the supreme achievement of late-twentieth-century American civilization. To this blessed work we assign our finest intellect and the largest share of our treasure, and in the magnificence of an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile we find our moral and aesthetic equivalent of the Sistine ceiling and Chartres Cathedral.

—Lewis Lapham

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.… All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

—H. L. Mencken

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