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Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I seem to have heard that observation before... It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old friend (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don’t (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things (Oscar Wilde Quotes)