Oscar Wilde Quotes
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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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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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.