Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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