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Between Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
- A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the…
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people…
- Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
- Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
- A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
- Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance…
- My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is…
- Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior…
- If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
- Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
- The only difference between acaprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
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