The only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about.
Oscar WildeAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar WildeYou are Beautiful when you are happy
Oscar WildeWhat would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil?" said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.
Oscar WildeThe whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.
Oscar WildeI am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.
Oscar WildeI usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Oscar WildeTags: social-interaction being-misunderstood dangerous-honesty
She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Oscar WildeTags: women
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar WildeTags: prejudice witty principles
But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
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