620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 201. If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear t ...

- 202. If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

- 203. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

- 204. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

- 205. If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

- 206. If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the inter ...

- 207. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

- 208. If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table rich ...

- 209. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...

- 210. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

- 211. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

- 212. Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is pro ...

- 213. In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

- 214. In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi ...

- 215. In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

- 216. In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

- 217. In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.

- 218. In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

- 219. In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

- 220. In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom ...

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