Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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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.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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