| Oscar Wilde ~ Quotations |
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. "
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner.
"There is no sin except stupidity."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot.
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write.
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
"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."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves,
"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
"It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection."
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." |
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