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- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- 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 (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), 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 (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest
- I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest
- Wisdom comes with winters.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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