Friend oscar wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar WildeEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar WildeTo love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar WildeI like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar WildeChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar WildeConscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
Oscar WildeMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar WildeThe tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar WildeAll bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar WildeThe very essence of love is uncertainty.
Oscar WildePhilanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar WildeMusic makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar WildeIgnorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar WildeParadoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar WildeAnybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar WildeOh! don't use big words. They mean so little.
Oscar WildeAt twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar WildeThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar WildeTo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar WildeWomen love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar WildeRomance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar WildeSin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar WildeDo not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
Oscar WildeI must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar WildePessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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