Oscar Wilde

(1318 votes)   Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(1662 votes)   A kiss may ruin a human life.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(1019 votes)   How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(591 votes)   Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(487 votes)   Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(440 votes)   He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(432 votes)   People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(427 votes)   Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(403 votes)   The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(398 votes)   I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(386 votes)   You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(382 votes)   The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(366 votes)   Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(361 votes)   Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(358 votes)   The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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