"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
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Oscar Wilde
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."