"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards."

Wilde, Oscar on gambling
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on food and eating
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"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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