I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. - Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. - Oscar Wilde
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. - Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. - Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. - Oscar Wilde
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