Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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You never mean a single word you say.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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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.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.