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Born: 1854-10-16
Died: 1900-11-30
Oscar Wilde Biography
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work.
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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
[ Funny Women Quotes] [ Funny Old Age Quotes] ***
When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad Americans die they go to America.
[ Funny America Quotes] ***
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
[ Funny Imagination Quotes] ***
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it merely had been detected.
[ Funny America Quotes] ***
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.
[ Funny Dream Quotes] ***
I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. (The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895)
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
[ Funny Cynicism Quotes] ***
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
[ Funny Genius Quotes] ***
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
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Thirty five is a very attractive age;
London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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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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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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