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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.


Oscar Wilde

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OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front.
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OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum...
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OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success.
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OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class.
OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money.
OSCAR WILDE Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any othe...
OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'...
OSCAR WILDE All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imi...
OSCAR WILDE In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
OSCAR WILDE Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite...
OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
OSCAR WILDE Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice...
OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless.
OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ...
OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,...
OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ...
OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom...
OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
OSCAR WILDE I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious...
OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t...
OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
OSCAR WILDE As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
OSCAR WILDE Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you wi...
OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi...
OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo...
OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
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OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
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.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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