Oscar Wilde's witticisms

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 1)

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 2)

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 3)

Genius is born--not paid.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 4)

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 5)

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 6)

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 7)

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 8)

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Wisdom comes with winters.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 9)

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 10)

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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