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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: tragedies
«Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Work | Keywords: refuge, well-to-do
«The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young»
«Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die»
«Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.»
«I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.»
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
«Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: annoys
«Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact»
«When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is»