Oscar Wilde quotes

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Charity
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Education
Time
Nothing
Worth
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
Saying
Word
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
Death
Facts
Vulgarity
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde
World
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Temptation
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Force
Intellect
Reason
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Choice
Enemies
Friends
Man
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Community
Giving
Ignorance
Journalism
Opinions
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience
Nothing
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
Being
Man
Woman
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
Marriage
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Artist
Feeling