Friend oscar wilde

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.

Oscar Wilde

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

Oscar Wilde

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde
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