Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.


Oscar Wilde

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Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
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OSCAR WILDE
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
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...
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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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