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a cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? - Oscar Wilde

always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much - Oscar Wilde

anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend\'s success - Oscar Wilde

as long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular - Oscar Wilde

duty is what one expects from others - Oscar Wilde

education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught - Oscar Wilde

everything is dangerous. If it wasn\'t so, life wouldn\'t be worth living - Oscar Wilde

experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde

having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things - Oscar Wilde

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don\'t talk politics - Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything - Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable - Oscar Wilde

I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime - Oscar Wilde

I do not believe in miracles. I\'ve seen too many of them - Oscar Wilde

I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best - Oscar Wilde

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talk. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don\'t understand what I said - Oscar Wilde

if you want to know what a woman really means, look at her, don\'t listen to her - Oscar Wilde

in fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood - Oscar Wilde

in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing - Oscar Wilde

in this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it - Oscar Wilde

it is because humanity didn\'t know where it was going that it managed to find its path - Oscar Wilde

it is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless - Oscar Wilde

it is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things behind one\'s back that are absolutely and entirely true - Oscar Wilde

love is not blind, it is far-sighted: the proof lies in the fact that it begins to see defects as they gradually slip away - Oscar Wilde

man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason - Oscar Wilde

never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway - Oscar Wilde

oh! don\'t use big words. They mean so little - Oscar Wilde

one should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry - Oscar Wilde

one should always play fairly when one has the winning cards - Oscar Wilde

one\'s real life is often the life that one does not lead - Oscar Wilde

people are divided into two groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing - Oscar Wilde

pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both - Oscar Wilde

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force - Oscar Wilde

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live - Oscar Wilde

sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single instant - Oscar Wilde

the great events of the world take place in the brain - Oscar Wilde

the only mission the working class has is to set a good example - Oscar Wilde

the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing - Oscar Wilde

the secret of happiness is to yield to temptations - Oscar Wilde

there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up - Oscar Wilde

there is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about - Oscar Wilde

there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about - Oscar Wilde

there is something tragic in the fact that as soon as man had invented a machine to do his work he began to starve - Oscar Wilde

this suspense is terrible. I hope it will last - Oscar Wilde

we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language

we must be modest and at the same time realise that others are inferior to us - Oscar Wilde

when the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers - Oscar Wilde

whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong - Oscar Wilde

who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde

women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects - Oscar Wilde

work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do (Oscar Wilde)

you only have to improve a person to ruin him - Oscar Wilde

young people nowadays assume that money is everything, and when they get older they know it - Oscar Wilde