"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is."

Wilde, Oscar on money
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"Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."

Wilde, Oscar on morality
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on motives
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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

Wilde, Oscar on murder
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"Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

Wilde, Oscar on music
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"No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists."

Wilde, Oscar on opinions   

"Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all."

Proverb, Albanian on guests
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"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf."

Wilde, Oscar on music   

"Bad manners make a journalist."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists   

"A kiss may ruin a human life."

Wilde, Oscar on kisses and kissing
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

Wilde, Oscar on appearance
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"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Wilde, Oscar on argument
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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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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"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on fantasy
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."

Wilde, Oscar on nations
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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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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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."

Wilde, Oscar on the future
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"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."

Wilde, Oscar on generations
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on hell
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"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

Shaw, George Bernard on giving   

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

Shaw, George Bernard on food and eating
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"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."

Shaw, George Bernard on flattery   

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