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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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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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.

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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