"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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Oscar Wilde
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"A kiss may ruin a human life"
"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."