Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. - Oscar Wilde
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. - Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. - 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
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
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