All Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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