FamousQuotes140: Oscar Wilde

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. - Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. - Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. - Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. - Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. - Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. - Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. - Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde

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

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. - Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. - Oscar Wilde

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