"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything."

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

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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"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 dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

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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"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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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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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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"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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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

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

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Wilde, Oscar on life   

"Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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