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Lady Windermere's Fan quotes

Oscar Wilde

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“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“For one moment our lives met—our souls touched.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“My life—my whole life. Take it, and do with it what you will. . . . I love you—love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You did not know it then—you know it...” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless...” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don't see any chance of it just at present.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“I like talking to a brick wall—it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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