Oscar Wilde Quotes, Romance Quotes, Privilege Quotes

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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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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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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