"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."

Wilde, Oscar on weather
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others."

Wilde, Oscar on wickedness
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"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on contradiction
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"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on common sense
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"Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."

Wilde, Oscar on children   

"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

Wilde, Oscar on children
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Wilde, Oscar on children
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy."

Wilde, Oscar on wives   

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Wilde, Oscar on talkativeness
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"There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."

Wilde, Oscar on superstition   

"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."

Wilde, Oscar on charm
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"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

Wilde, Oscar on sorrow
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"When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own."

Wilde, Oscar on socializing and socialism
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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?"

Wilde, Oscar on smoking
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"What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it."

Wilde, Oscar on slander
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Wilde, Oscar on sincerity
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"There is no sin except stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."

Wilde, Oscar on simplicity   

"The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine."

Wilde, Oscar on simplicity   

"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on silence   

"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."

Wilde, Oscar on stupidity
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"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at."

Wilde, Oscar on style   

"Nothing succeeds like success."

Wilde, Oscar on success   

"It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out."

Wilde, Oscar on character   

"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."

Wilde, Oscar on change   

"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

Wilde, Oscar on caprice
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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."

Wilde, Oscar on business   

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on belief
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"It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly."

Wilde, Oscar on beauty
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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors   

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

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors
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"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."

Wilde, Oscar on suffering
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"They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."

Corso, Gregory on perseverance
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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."

Corbett, James J. on perseverance
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