Oscar Wilde quotes - page 4

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Oscar Wilde)
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde
Youth is the only thing worth having.
Oscar Wilde
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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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.
Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. (Oscar Wilde)
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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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.
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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.
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Men can be analyzed, women... merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Time is waste of money.
Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. (Oscar Wilde)
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
Ah Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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