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“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“She… can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: 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 book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest