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I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad, as though they were two separate races or creations. What are called good women may have terrible things in them, mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin. Bad women. as they are termed, may have in them sorrow, repentence, pity, sacrifice.


Oscar Wilde

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OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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