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"Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour!" Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer. These are some of his famous quotes.
| | All bad art is the result of good intentions. |
| | Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. |
| | An excellent man: he has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. |
| | Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same. |
| | Buck up and be jolly, my dear lady! Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour! |
| | I am dying as I have lived: beyond my means. |
| | I have nothing to declare except my Genius. |
| | I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy. |
| | In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. |
| | It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. |
| | Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. |
| | Work is the curse of the drinking classes. |
| | I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. |
| | The supreme vice is shallowness. |
| | We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour. |
| | Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. |
| | Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. |
| | The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
| | Genius lasts longer than beauty. |
| | Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. |
| | All art is quite useless. |
| | Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. |
| | There is no sin except stupidity. |
| | Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. |
| | No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. |
| | We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. |
| | A true friend stabs you in the front. |
| | All art is immoral. |
| | I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying. |
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