Oscar Wilde

(78 votes)   The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(78 votes)   When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde
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(77 votes)   A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(77 votes)   By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(76 votes)   If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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(76 votes)   It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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(76 votes)   Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(75 votes)   A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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(75 votes)   A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(75 votes)   Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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(75 votes)   He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(74 votes)   Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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(72 votes)   I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(72 votes)   Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(72 votes)   Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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