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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde -
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
Oscar Wilde -
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde -
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde -
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde -
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde -
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Oscar Wilde -
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde -
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
Oscar Wilde -
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
Oscar Wilde -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Oscar Wilde -
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde -
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde -
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Oscar Wilde