Oscar Wilde Quotes, Pain Quotes, True Friend Quotes

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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