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.

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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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