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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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