• Oscar Wilde

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    NO. Dictums
    01 We are all in the gutter, but some of us looking at the stars.
    02 I have nothing to declare except my genius.
    03 An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
    04 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
    05 Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
    06 The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
    07 The well bred contradict other people.The wise contradict themselves.
    08 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
    09 To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    10 Experiences is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
    11 The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
    12 This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
    13 What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessing in disguise.
    14 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    15 Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
    16 I do not want to earn my living. I want to live.
    17 I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
    18 To do noting at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
    19 When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life, now that I am old, I know it is.
    20 Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
    21 Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
    22 One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
    23 A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
    24 The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
    25 Nothing can cure the soul but the sences, just at onthing can cure the sences but the soul.
    26 Arguments are extremely vular, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
    27 When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
    28 Wicked women bother me. Good women bore me. That is the only difference between them.
    29 I adore simple pleasure. They are the last refuge of the complex.
    30 Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
    31 The world has been made by fools that wise men should ive in it.
    32 It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
    33 A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
    34 An excellent man; he has no enimies; and none of his friends like him.
    35 I can resist everything except temptation.
    36 The heart was made to be broken.
    37 Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
    38 Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
    39 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
    40 The happiness of a married depends on the people he has not married.
    41 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
    42 I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.
    43 Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
    44 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
    45 The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
    46 Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
    47 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
    48 A little sincerity is dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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