Oscar Wilde quotes - page 2

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. (Oscar Wilde)
Only the shallow know themselves. View quote
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. View quote
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past. View quote
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. View quote
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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. View quote
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. View quote
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. View quote
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. View quote
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. View quote
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True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde)
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. View quote
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. View quote
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. View quote
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I am not young enough to know everything. View quote
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them. View quote
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. View quote
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. View quote
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. View quote
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. (Oscar Wilde)
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. View quote
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. View quote
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. View quote
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. View quote
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