Oscar Wilde Quotes

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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I'm too old to know everything

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

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