Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Oscar Wilde

• Life
• Woman
• Husband
• Tragedy
• Lover

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

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• To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

  

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• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

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• There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Husband