Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
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A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
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Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.