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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Painters and Painting
Oscar Wilde

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Fathers
Oscar Wilde

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Politicians and Politics
Oscar Wilde

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Punctuality
Oscar Wilde

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Poverty and The Poor
Oscar Wilde

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
News
Oscar Wilde

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Modern and Modernism
Oscar Wilde

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Character
Oscar Wilde

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Confession
Oscar Wilde

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

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Murder
Oscar Wilde

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
Society
Oscar Wilde

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Evangelism
Oscar Wilde

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Teachers and Teaching
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Fantasy
Oscar Wilde

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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
Popularity
Oscar Wilde

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Taxes and Taxation
Oscar Wilde

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Emotions
Oscar Wilde

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books - Reading
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun