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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
I am not young enough to know everything.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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.
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.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.