Oscar Wilde Quotes, Drinking Quotes

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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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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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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