Oscar Wilde Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
-- Oscar WildeSource : Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde
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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
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“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”
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“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
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“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“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.”
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“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”
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“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
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“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”
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“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
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“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
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“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
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“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
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“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
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“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world”
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“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
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“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”
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“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”
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“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
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“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
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“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
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“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”
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“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
-- Oscar Wilde
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