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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.»
«To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.»
«Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening»
«I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.»
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
«The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.»
«The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: hides
«Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are»
«Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.»
«We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.»