Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
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"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
Oscar Wilde
"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
Oscar Wilde
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."
Oscar Wilde
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
Oscar Wilde
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."
Oscar Wilde
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
Oscar Wilde
"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."
Oscar Wilde
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Oscar Wilde
"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
Oscar Wilde
"In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
Oscar Wilde
"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
Oscar Wilde
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
Oscar Wilde
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
Oscar Wilde
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
Oscar Wilde
"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."
Oscar Wilde
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