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Saturday, June 11, 2011
USA Postcard: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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