Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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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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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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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.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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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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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.
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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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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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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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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.