When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest
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Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
Oscar Wilde in The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women' merely adored.
Oscar Wilde in An Ideal Husband
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy.
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