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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde -
Talent borrows, genius steals!
Oscar Wilde -
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde -
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde -
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
Oscar Wilde -
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde -
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
Oscar Wilde -
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Oscar Wilde -
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde -
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde -
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Oscar Wilde
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.
Oscar Wilde -
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde