Oscar Wilde Quotes

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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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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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
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