Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary...

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary...

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is...

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in...

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in...

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards...

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...