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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet [more author details]

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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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, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.: Oscar Wilde, The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.: Oscar Wilde, The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, the works of Oscar Wilde ed. G., 1954
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