Oscar Wilde Quotes, Age Quotes

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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