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“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.”
― Colette

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
― Sarah Bernhardt

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali