Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. - Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. - Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. - Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. - Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. - Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. - William Shakespeare
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