“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” — Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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“To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“A sentimentalist … is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.” — Oscar Wilde, The portrait of Mr. W. H.
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man
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“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
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“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
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“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest