Oscar Wilde Short Quotes

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I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde
Her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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In married life, three is company, and two is none.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.

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Love is a form of heroism that never goes out of date.

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Mediocrity always detests ability, and loathes genius.

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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

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There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.

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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Truth will not be ignored. It will rise up and consume us.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Facts fled before philosophy like frightened forest things.

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