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7190 quotesA person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
Sensitivity
Oscar Wilde
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Pessimism
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Uncategorised
Oscar Wilde
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
America
Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Temptation
Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Argument
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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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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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Disciples
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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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 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 have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Excellence
Oscar Wilde
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Truth
Oscar Wilde
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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Ignorance
Oscar Wilde
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
People, Other
Oscar Wilde
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
News
Oscar Wilde
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.
Divorce
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