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An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- 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
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
I can resist everything except temptation.
- 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
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- 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
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- 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
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- 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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- 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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- 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
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- 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
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world
with a broader significance
than the narrow association of
members in a sect or creed.
- Helen Keller
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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