Oscar Wilde

(58 votes)   I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde
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(58 votes)   I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

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(57 votes)   Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(56 votes)   Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde
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(56 votes)   An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(55 votes)   The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(54 votes)   Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(54 votes)   Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(54 votes)   I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(54 votes)   It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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