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  • #1
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    oscar wilde

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “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.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no sin except stupidity.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “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”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy
    George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows



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