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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar Wilde
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde -
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde -
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde -
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
Oscar Wilde -
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
Even things that are true can be proved.
Oscar Wilde -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde -
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
Oscar Wilde -
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde -
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Oscar Wilde -
You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
Oscar Wilde -
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
Oscar Wilde -
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde -
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde -
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde -
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde