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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Oscar Wilde
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Oscar Wilde
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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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.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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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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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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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
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