Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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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
If a woman wants to hold a man, she has merely to appeal to the worst in him.
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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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For 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.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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