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224 quotes (Page 4 of 9 pages)I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Talkativeness
Oscar Wilde
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Acting and Actors
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
Travel and Tourism
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Genius
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Humankind
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Music
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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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Loyalty
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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Ignorance
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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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In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
President
Oscar Wilde
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Poverty and The Poor
Oscar Wilde
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Platitudes
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Media
Oscar Wilde
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Change
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
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Humankind
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Beauty
Oscar Wilde
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Security
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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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Modern and Modernism
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Character
Oscar Wilde
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Confession
Oscar Wilde
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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun