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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.»
«Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.»
«Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner»
«A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.»
«These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.»
«We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.»
«Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.»
«One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.»
«Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!»
«Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.»