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I like men who have a future and women who have a past
Oscar Wilde
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
John Boyd Orr
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin
Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Amber Benson
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There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past
Oscar Wilde
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
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Related Authors: George Colman - Philippe Quinault - Oscar Wilde - Hannah Cowley - Henry Porter - William Shakespeare - Tennessee Williams - George S. Kaufman
Based on Topics: Defeats Quotes, Kings & Queens Quotes, Stupidity Quotes, Success Quotes, Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes, World Quotes
Based on Keywords: disquiet, gape
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
John Boyd Orr
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin
Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Amber Benson