Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would...

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the...

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

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.

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...

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable,...

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable,...

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest...

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest...