Oscar Wilde Quotes

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WILDE, Oscar Quotes

(1856-1900), Irish author

Character

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Hypocrisy

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Life

The Book Of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Society

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Sorrow

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

War

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Woman

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored.

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