Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
Oscar Wilde
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
Oscar Wilde
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
Oscar Wilde
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
Oscar Wilde
"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."
Oscar Wilde
"When good Americans die, they go to Paris."
Oscar Wilde
"I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works."
Oscar Wilde
"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again."
Oscar Wilde
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."
Oscar Wilde
"Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar Wilde
"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular."
Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?"
Oscar Wilde
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
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."
Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
Oscar Wilde
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
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