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Category: Oscar Wilde

12 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

12 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life.

12 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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