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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
devotion, married man, married woman
«The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.»
«To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life»
«Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary»
«As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.»
«I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
adore, adores, adoring, at parties, Our Party, Parties, Partying, party politics, political, political parties, politics, talk Politics
«No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
accurate, age, calculating, looks, quite
«Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
difficulty, of course, plays
«It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.»