"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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"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

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

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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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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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on work
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar on illusion
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."

Wilde, Oscar on innocence
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

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

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

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

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

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

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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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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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on failure
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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