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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«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.»
«Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.»
«A poet can survive everything but a misprint.»
«When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.»
«Art never expresses anything but itself.»
«Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go»
«It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.»
«Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Funny, Life | Keywords: after, each other, fool
«Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.»
«The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.»