Oscar Wilde

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Sweet
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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Husband
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Life
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Two
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Blood
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Greatness
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Funny
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Clever
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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Funny
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Friendship
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Romance
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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Romance
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Reading