Oscar Wilde Cool & famous Quotes by

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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• Love

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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• Humor

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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• Relationships

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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• Humor

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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• Truth

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

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• Love

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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• Life

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

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• Humor

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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• Love

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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• Humor

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

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• Knowledge

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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• Romance

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

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• Love

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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• Writing

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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• Truth

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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• Life

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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• Books

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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• Life

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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• Love

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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• Relationships

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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• Relationships

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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• Humor

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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• Humor

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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• Inspirational

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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• Wisdom

Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword

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• Love

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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• Humor