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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal
Oscar Wilde

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Abstinence
Oscar Wilde

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Speakers and Speaking
Oscar Wilde

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Emotions
Oscar Wilde

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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Fiction
Oscar Wilde

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Belief
Oscar Wilde

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Illusion
Oscar Wilde

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Advice
Oscar Wilde

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Genius
Oscar Wilde

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Truth
Oscar Wilde

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Misers and Misery
Oscar Wilde

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

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They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde

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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Writers and Writing
Oscar Wilde

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To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde

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

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