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The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is. — Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his lif — Abed Yaman
Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of — Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn... — Oscar Wilde
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. — Oscar Wilde
WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The be — Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. — Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks — Johnny Rich, The Human Script
She lives the poetry she cannot write. — Oscar Wilde
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (this excerpt inspired my book, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. Wilde wrote it to his lov — Paulette Mahurin
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that — Oscar Wilde
Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of th — Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde