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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| I knew her before she was a virgin. -- Oscar Levant, on Doris Day | |
| The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse. -- Oscar Wilde Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style. -- The Unnamed Usenetter | |
| Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed] | |
| Life is too short to be taken seriously. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| "The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde | |
| Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde | |
| America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde | |
| Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde | |
| "Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." - Oscar Wilde | |
| As 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 Wilde, "Intentions" | |
| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Politics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. -- Oscar Ameringer | |
| Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she doesn't deserve to have any." | |
| Duty, n: What one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| While riding in a train between London and Birmingham, a woman inquired of Oscar Wilde, "You don't mind if I smoke, do you?" Wilde gave her a sidelong glance and replied, "I don't mind if you burn, madam." | |
| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist" | |
| Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance" | |
| John Dame May Oscar Was Gay Was Whitty Was Wilde But Gerard Hopkins But John Greenleaf But Thornton Was Manley Was Whittier Was Wilder -- Willard Espy | |
| Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it away. -- Oscar Hammerstein II | |
| There once was a Sailor who looked through a glass And spied a fair mermaid with scales on her... island. Where seagulls flew over their nest. She combed the long hair which hung over her... shoulders. And caused her to tickle and itch. The sailor cried out "There's a beautiful... mermaid. A sittin' out there on the rocks." The crew came a running, all grabbing their... glasses. And crowded four deep to the rail. All eager to share in this fine piece of... news. ... "Throw out a line and we'll lasso her... flippers. And soon we will certainly find If mermaids are better before or be... brave My dear fellows," The captain cried out. And cursing with spleen. This song may be dull, but it's certainly clean. -- "The Clean Song", Oscar Brandt | |
| Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| I can resist everything except temptation. -Oscar Wilde | |
| Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| He hadn't a single redeeming vice. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| I always choose my friends for their good looks and my enemies for their good intellects. Man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" | |
| I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never any good to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" | |
| I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" | |
| In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Murder is always a mistake -- one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" | |
| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" | |
| The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." | |
| Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant | |
| So little time, so little to do. -- Oscar Levant | |
| The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression. -- Oscar Wilde. | |
