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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Oscar Wilde -
Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
Oscar Wilde -
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Oscar Wilde -
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde -
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar Wilde -
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
Oscar Wilde -
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde -
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
Oscar Wilde -
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde -
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
Oscar Wilde -
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
Oscar Wilde -
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde -
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde -
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde