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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Oscar Wilde

America

Benefits

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

Life

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

Duty

Fiction

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Reading

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

Men

Women

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

Memory

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

Man

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Old

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

Life