"Only the shallow know themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on   

"There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink."

Wilde, Oscar on frequency   

"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."

Wilde, Oscar on cries and crying   

"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

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

Wilde, Oscar on contradiction
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"Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!"

Wilde, Oscar on conspiracy   

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Wilde, Oscar on consistency
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on value
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"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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"Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."

Wilde, Oscar on youth
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"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again."

Wilde, Oscar on writers and writing
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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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"As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back."

Wilde, Oscar on wickedness   

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others."

Wilde, Oscar on wickedness
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"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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"Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people."

Wilde, Oscar on vulgarity
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"Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people."

Wilde, Oscar on vulgarity
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter."

Rollin, Betty on mothers   

"If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them."

Unknown, Source on love
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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

Hobbes, Thomas on tranquility
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"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"sometimes it's hard to be inlove because your afraid to be hurt but you need to try because to be hurt is part of being inlove and being inlove is part of being alive.."

Mendoza, Meriah on   

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Buscaglia, Leo on motivation
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"i'm searching for the love that will make it okay for me to remember you."

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"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on night
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on sacrifice
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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"People who are out to find fault seldom find anything else. It is a waste of time, no matter how much you find fault, it is not going to change anything. It's better to find a remedy."

Dye, James on blame   

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."

Marino, Michael Garrett on love
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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