When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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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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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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