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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
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«The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Birthday,
Change
| Keywords:
aged, middle-aged, middle, middles, Middle way, suspect, young
«Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us»
«In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
governs, journalism, reigns, the President
«When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.»
«Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.»
«There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.»
«Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man»
«Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crying, plain, Pretty Woman, refuge, ruin
«Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
lots, shows, Show People, talking, talk show, Talk shows
«He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
best friend, epigram, stab, tombstone
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