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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Oscar Wilde
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
Oscar Wilde -
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Oscar Wilde -
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Oscar Wilde -
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
Oscar Wilde -
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
Oscar Wilde -
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde -
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde -
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
Oscar Wilde -
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
Oscar Wilde -
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Oscar Wilde -
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde -
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Oscar Wilde -
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde -
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Oscar Wilde -
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde -
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
Oscar Wilde -
Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
Oscar Wilde -
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde -
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde