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66Eleven quotes by Oscar Wilde99

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel.

❝A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.❞ [+]

❝A thing is not necessarily right because a man dies for it.❞ [+]

❝Biography lends to death a new terror.❞ [+]

❝I can resist everything except temptation.❞ [+]

❝It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.❞ [+]

❝Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance.❞ [+]

❝Punctuality is the thief of time.❞ [+]

❝Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.❞ [+]

❝The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.❞ [+]

❝We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.❞ [+]

❝Work is the curse of the drinking classes.❞ [+]

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