Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."
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"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."
Oscar Wilde
"To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
Oscar Wilde
"When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is."
Oscar Wilde
"Men become old but they never become good."
Oscar Wilde
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are."
Oscar Wilde
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
Oscar Wilde
"Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed."
Oscar Wilde
"Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree."
Oscar Wilde
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
Oscar Wilde
"Men know life too early women know life too late."
Oscar Wilde
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
Oscar Wilde
"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."
Oscar Wilde
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
Oscar Wilde
"Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams."
Oscar Wilde
"I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
Oscar Wilde
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us."
Oscar Wilde
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
Oscar Wilde
"When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve."
Oscar Wilde
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it."
Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
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