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Wise Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
- Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
- The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one…
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
- The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
- It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
- To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for…
- In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
- We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
- Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are…
- When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
- Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own…
- In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
- Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.
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