Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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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.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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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.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.