To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
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Published before 06/01/2004
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I delight in talking politics. I talk them all day. But I can't bear listening to them. I don't know how the unfortunate men in the house stand these long debates.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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