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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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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
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Live the wonderful life that is in you.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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One should always be in love.
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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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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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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