Oscar Wilde Quotes, Aging Quotes, Faithfulness Quotes

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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