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All bad art is the result of good intentions. — Oscar Wilde

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female. — Oscar Wilde

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. — Oscar Wilde

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it! — Oscar Wilde

A moment of kindness can fill your heart with infinite joy. — Debasish Mridha

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. — Oscar Wilde

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde — Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another. — Cornel Wilde

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner. — Olivia Wilde

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart. — Debasish Mridha

Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future. — Debasish Mridha

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that — Oscar Wilde

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. — Oscar Wilde

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. — Oscar Wilde

You seem to be displaying signs of triviality. — Oscar Wilde

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. — Oscar Wilde

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. — Stuart Wilde

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. — Oscar Wilde

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. — Oscar Wilde

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten. — Oscar Wilde

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. — Oscar Wilde

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age — Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde

I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes. — Olivia Wilde

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. — Oscar Wilde

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde

When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting. — Oscar Wilde

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. — Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde

Life is short, art is infinite. — Oscar Wilde

youth is the one
thing worth having. — Oscar Wilde

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. — Oscar Wilde

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. — Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. — Oscar Wilde

Isn't this what you wanted? — Lilly Wilde

In the end, you will forget to love, and you will not have the ability to offend. When you have the ability to love, love and forget to offend. — Debasish Mridha

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. — Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — Oscar Wilde

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile. — Debasish Mridha

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. — Oscar Wilde

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

Disobedience is man's original virtue. — Oscar Wilde

They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences. — Oscar Wilde

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference. — Oscar Wilde

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. — Oscar Wilde

Smiling is the most powerful exercise to build a joyful mind and a blissful heart. — Debasish Mridha

You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value. — Debasish Mridha

She was free in her prison of passion. — Oscar Wilde

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance — Oscar Wilde

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. — Oscar Wilde

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate. — Debasish Mridha

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind. — Debasish Mridha

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't. — Kim Wilde

Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant. — Debasish Mridha

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde

Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love. — Debasish Mridha

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

And, green or dry, a man must die Before it bears its fruit! — Oscar Wilde

We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter. — Debasish Mridha

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life. — Oscar Wilde

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken. — Oscar Wilde

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come ... it's painful waiting for them. — Oscar Wilde

I suppose one must be serious sometimes. — Oscar Wilde

Love is easily killed. Oh! how easily love is killed. — Oscar Wilde

Yesterday was good, but let us dream and work hard to make tomorrow even better. — Debasish Mridha

Your cynicism is simply a pose. — Oscar Wilde

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde

We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. — Oscar Wilde

If you help others to be happy, nobody can steal your happiness. — Debasish Mridha

One should absorb the color of life. — Oscar Wilde

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. — Oscar Wilde

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. — Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. — Oscar Wilde

Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation. — Don Winslow

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. — Oscar Wilde

I am what I am. There is nothing more to be said. — Oscar Wilde

Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities. — Oscar Wilde

Give me an enthusiastic, purpose-oriented person and I will give a successful future leader. — Debasish Mridha

I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present. — Oscar Wilde

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. — Oscar Wilde

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. — Oscar Wilde

A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul. — Debasish Mridha

An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results. — Debasish Mridha

The world belongs to the discontented. — Oscar Wilde

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. — Oscar Wilde