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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency
Oscar Wilde

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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Cries and Crying
Oscar Wilde

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Leisure
Oscar Wilde

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy
Oscar Wilde

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Despotism
Oscar Wilde

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Discontent
Oscar Wilde

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Dullness
Oscar Wilde

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Disciples
Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Painters and Painting
Oscar Wilde

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Mistakes
Oscar Wilde

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Fathers
Oscar Wilde

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Flowers
Oscar Wilde

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!
Guests
Oscar Wilde

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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Taste
Oscar Wilde

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
Silence
Oscar Wilde

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Punctuality
Oscar Wilde

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Wilde

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Politicians and Politics
Oscar Wilde

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Simplicity
Oscar Wilde

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde

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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Argument
Oscar Wilde

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Excellence
Oscar Wilde

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Talkativeness
Oscar Wilde

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