Tag: Oscar Wilde
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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
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
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It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
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Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde