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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
May
Misfortune
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Intellect
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
Love
Gods
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Hope
Suspense
Will
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
Devotion
Man
Nothing
Woman
World
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
Beauty
Life
Sympathy
Joy
Pain
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Stars
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Winning
Cards
Play
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
Quotation
Wit
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Answers
Questions
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Choice
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
America
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism
Virtue
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
Progress
Ambition
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
Soul