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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
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde 
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- 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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle
that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.
No man does.
That's his.
- Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography.
A woman's face is her work of fiction.
- Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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