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Oscar Wilde Quotes

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity

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