Oscar Wilde Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Mistake Quotes

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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