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It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Charm
Oscar Wilde

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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Morality
Oscar Wilde

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
Society
Oscar Wilde

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Opinions
Oscar Wilde

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None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Faults
Oscar Wilde

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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Value
Oscar Wilde

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Past
Oscar Wilde

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Food and Eating
Oscar Wilde

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Philanthropists
Oscar Wilde

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Contradiction
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Misfortunes
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Vulgarity
Oscar Wilde

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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Vulgarity
Oscar Wilde

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Wickedness
Oscar Wilde

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Work
Oscar Wilde

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
Truth
Billy Wilder

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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Frankness
Tennessee Williams

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I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me.
Sexuality
Vanessa Williams

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
Success
Charles E. Wilson

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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Secrets
Walter Winchell

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I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
Vision
Oprah Winfrey

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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Association
Oprah Winfrey

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun