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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
By Oscar Wilde
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
By Oscar Wilde
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
By Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
By Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
By Oscar Wilde
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
By Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
By Oscar Wilde
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
By Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
By Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
By Oscar Wilde