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2913 quotesIt is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Character
Oscar Wilde
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Impossibility
Oscar Wilde
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Housework
Oscar Wilde
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Romance and Romanticism
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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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Philanthropists
Oscar Wilde
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde
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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Speakers and Speaking
Oscar Wilde
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Illusion
Oscar Wilde
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Misers and Misery
Oscar Wilde
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Cynics and Cynicism
Oscar Wilde
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Slander
Oscar Wilde
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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Motives
Oscar Wilde
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Choice
Thornton Wilder
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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Plays
Thornton Wilder
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Human Spirit
Bern Williams
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun