Author

Oscar Wilde

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“I can resist everything except temptation.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”— Oscar Wilde
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“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”— Oscar Wilde
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“An excellent man; he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”— Oscar Wilde
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”— Oscar Wilde
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“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”— Oscar Wilde
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“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”— Oscar Wilde
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“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”— Oscar Wilde
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”— Oscar Wilde
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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.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”— Oscar Wilde
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“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”— Oscar Wilde