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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. (Oscar Wilde)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. View quote
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. View quote
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. View quote
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The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. View quote
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. View quote
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy. View quote
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. View quote
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Youth is the only thing worth having. View quote
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. View quote
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. (Oscar Wilde)
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. View quote
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. View quote
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. View quote
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. View quote
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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry. View quote
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. View quote
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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. View quote
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs. View quote
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Men can be analyzed, women... merely adored. View quote
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. (Oscar Wilde)
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. View quote
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. View quote
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. View quote
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Time is waste of money. 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: 1197
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