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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
Oscar Wilde
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
Oscar Wilde
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Oscar Wilde
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
Oscar Wilde
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
Oscar Wilde
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is in art.
Oscar Wilde
