Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The best revenge is to live well.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
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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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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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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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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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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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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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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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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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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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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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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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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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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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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.