Oscar Wilde quotes - page 6

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. (Oscar Wilde)
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. View quote
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Punctuality is the thief of time. View quote
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. View quote
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. View quote
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. View quote
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. View quote
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot. View quote
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. View quote
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. View quote
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless... (Oscar Wilde)
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. View quote
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. View quote
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. View quote
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. View quote
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. View quote
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. View quote
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. View quote
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It is always the unreadable that occurs. View quote
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. View quote
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Those whom the gods love grow young. (Oscar Wilde)
Charity creates a multitude of sins. View quote
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. View quote
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. View quote
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. View quote
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