Oscar Wilde Quotes, Drinking Quotes, Occasional Quotes

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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