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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance»
«Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building»
«Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies»
«Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.»
«A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on»
«Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities»
«The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Age, Life, Soul | Keywords: comedy
«If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.»
«America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up»
«The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.»