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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.»
«Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
in name, in name only, mistakes, name, naming, same name, that name, The name, the same name
«Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
advisable, each other, engagements, finding, marriage, opportunity
«A kiss may ruin a human life.»
«The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.»
«He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.»
«Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.»
«Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived»
«If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
found, later, sooner, sooner or later, sure, tells, The Truth, truth telling
«The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
but, can, Everything, get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, resist, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
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