Oscar Wilde

(88 votes)   A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(88 votes)   All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(88 votes)   Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(87 votes)   Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(87 votes)   London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(87 votes)   Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde
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(87 votes)   To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(86 votes)   Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(86 votes)   The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(85 votes)   To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(84 votes)   Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(84 votes)   It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(84 votes)   Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde
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(84 votes)   To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(83 votes)   In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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