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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

By Oscar Wilde

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

By Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

By Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life

By Oscar Wilde

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

By Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

By Oscar Wilde

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

By Oscar Wilde

... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

By Oscar Wilde

...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

By Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

By Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

By Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.

By Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

By Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

By Oscar Wilde

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

By Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

By 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.

By Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

By Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

By Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

By Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

By Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

By Oscar Wilde

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

By Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

By Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

By Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

By Oscar Wilde