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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
People
Wrong
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
Romance
Actor
Realism
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Being
Poor
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Work
Drinking
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Love
Women
Will
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Men
Women
Compliments
Difference
Sexes
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
Women
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
Man
Motives
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Man
Woman
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Death
Biography
Terror
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
Courage
Strength
Temptation
Temptations
Weakness
Yield
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
People
Democracy
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Romance
World
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation
Weather
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Time
Children
Parents