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Usually Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
- Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
- Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
- It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I…
- She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She…
- I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.…
- Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
- I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
- A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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