Oscar Wilde Quotes 3

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn’t become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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