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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde

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"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." Friendship, Marriage 4.8 avg (17 votes)
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." Genius 4.7 avg (11 votes)
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." God 4.1 avg (20 votes)
"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all." Intelligence 4.7 avg (7 votes)
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means." Life & Death 4.3 avg (9 votes)
"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love." Love 4.9 avg (21 votes)
"Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other." Love 4.6 avg (15 votes)
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." Love, Music 4.4 avg (8 votes)
"Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding." Love 5.0 avg (15 votes)
"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies." Love 4.4 avg (29 votes)
"No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out." Marriage 4.4 avg (5 votes)
"A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing." Marriage 4.8 avg (17 votes)
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." Marriage 4.8 avg (12 votes)
"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed." Marriage 4.0 avg (10 votes)
"An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself." Marriage 2.8 avg (5 votes)
"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." Marriage, Men, Women 3.6 avg (22 votes)
"Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance." Men, Women 4.5 avg (19 votes)
"Men can be analyzed, women merely adored." Men, Women 3.7 avg (36 votes)
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself." Miscellaneous 4.7 avg (7 votes)
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Miscellaneous 4.9 avg (22 votes)


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