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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Oscar Wilde

Opinion

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

Art

Schools

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

Income

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

Ugly

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

People

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde

Information

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

In married life three is company and two none.

Oscar Wilde

Life

Company

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

Life

Will

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.