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- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windemere's Fan
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, the works of Oscar Wilde ed. G., 1954
- The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- 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 (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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