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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.


Oscar Wilde

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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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