"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyones feelings intentionally."
― Oscar Wilde
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"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied "
― Oscar Wilde
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
― Oscar Wilde
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"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
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"Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance."
― Oscar Wilde
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"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
― Oscar Wilde
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"Each of us has heaven and hell in him..."
― Oscar Wilde
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
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"I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."
― Oscar Wilde
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"If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)"
― Oscar Wilde
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
― Oscar Wilde
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"A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."
― Oscar Wilde
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"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
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"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
― Oscar Wilde
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"The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future."
― Oscar Wilde
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"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
― Oscar Wilde
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