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#1

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#2

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

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#3

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: education, women

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#4

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#5

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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#6

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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#7

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex

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#8

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

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#9

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: education, future

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#10

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: education, lifelong-learning

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#11

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics

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#12

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#13

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

tags: books, morality, reading

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#14

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

tags: humor-heaven

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#15

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#16

“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

tags: attributed-no-source

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#17

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

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#18

“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

tags: education-knowledge

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#19

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#20

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#21

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

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious

3497 likes

#22

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, humour

3174 likes

#23

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2750 likes

#24

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#25

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#27

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

tags: sin-stupidity

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#28

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#29

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights

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#30

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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