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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar WildeTo lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
Oscar WildeOnly the shallow know themselves.
Oscar WildeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeAll art is quite useless.
Oscar WildeWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar WildeSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar WildeAs 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.
Oscar WildeTo give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar WildeMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeOrdinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar WildeThe only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeExperience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar WildeIt is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar WildeThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar WildeModeration is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar WildeTo be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar WildeNothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar WildeMan is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar WildeWhen we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
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