Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”"
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"“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”"
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
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"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
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"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals."
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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."
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
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"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
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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."
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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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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"True friends stab you in the front."
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"All art is quite useless."
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
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