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Oscar Wilde

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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Acting 4.9 avg (7 votes)
"Those whom the gods love grow young." Age 3.6 avg (10 votes)
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating." Age, Women 4.3 avg (9 votes)
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Age 4.2 avg (17 votes)
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." America 4.7 avg (11 votes)
"America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization." America 4.6 avg (31 votes)
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected." America 4.8 avg (4 votes)
"All art is quite useless." Art 3.3 avg (19 votes)
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly." Beauty 4.3 avg (14 votes)
"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity." Christianity 4.1 avg (9 votes)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Clever Jabs 4.5 avg (32 votes)
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Clever Jabs 5.0 avg (26 votes)
"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." Clever Jabs 4.5 avg (21 votes)
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." Debate, Wisdom 4.8 avg (19 votes)
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." Democracy 4.8 avg (13 votes)
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Education 5.0 avg (18 votes)
"The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value." Education 4.0 avg (5 votes)
"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." Education 2.5 avg (24 votes)
"Skepticism is the beginning of faith." Faith 3.8 avg (13 votes)
"True friends stab you in the front." Friendship 4.7 avg (89 votes)


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