Oscar Wilde quotes - page 33

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. (Oscar Wilde)
Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father? View quote
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When a voice behind me whispered low, "That fellow's got to swing." View quote
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. View quote
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. View quote
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. View quote
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. View quote
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long. View quote
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Life is too short to learn German. View quote
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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! View quote
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. View quote
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. View quote
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. View quote
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A gentleman never offends unintentionally. View quote
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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. View quote
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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. View quote
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others. View quote
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Genius is born, not paid. View quote
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sorrow... is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it. View quote
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. (Oscar Wilde)
Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth. View quote
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. View quote
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. View quote
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. View quote
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Oscar Wilde

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900
Quotes count: 1196
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