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«She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
American, American Woman, As If, behaves, The Secret
«I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Funny,
Insults,
witty
| Keywords:
a lot, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, hard-boiled, hard-boiled egg, hardboiled, lot, meet up with, met, minutes, The Eggs, The Met, time, twenties, twenty
«Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.»
«How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Marriage,
Men,
Relationships,
witty,
Women
| Keywords:
As If, being, can, expected, happy, her, He Said She Said, how, human, human being, insisted, insists, make happy, man, More Than Human, normal, perfectly, She, to be, treating, were, WHO, with, woman
«There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
about, at the worst, being, One World, talked, Talk to Her, that is, their talk, there is, the very worst, the world, thing, this talk, worse
«Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.»
«In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fool,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
answer, Any Questions, ask, ask for it, ask in, Examinations, foolish, out of the question, questions, wise, wised, wise up
«The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
advantage, advantaged, astray, emotions, lead, lead astray, lead on, to advantage
«I can resist everything except temptation.»
«People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fidelity,
Imagination,
Love,
Loyalty,
Marriage
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