Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about...

Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about...

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.