Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Life
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Life
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Wisdom
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Love
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Wisdom
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Hope
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Hope
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Wisdom
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Happiness
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Wisdom
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Life
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Friendship
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Wisdom
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Life
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Wisdom
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Truth
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.
Life
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Love
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Wisdom
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Wisdom
True friends stab you in the front.
Friendship
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Happiness
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