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Oscar Wilde: top 100 quotes
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Journalism (n.) is accommodating to a public with an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Journalism (n.) is nothing but the opinions of the uneducated, which is useful to hear as it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.
Journalism (n.) is different from literature in that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Love's (n.) aim is to love. No more, no less.
Love (n.) is a misunderstanding between two fools.
Love (n.) is a tragedy that only the faithless know while the faithful know only the trivial side of love.
Love (n.) is giving and not expecting return.
Love (n.) is not rooted in any external reasons, but because the loved sings a song only the lover can hear.
Love (n.) is so constructed that any place that we love becomes our world.
Love (n.) is no longer fashionable anymore, as the poets have killed it.
Love (n.) will fly if held too lightly and will die if held too tightly.
Love (n.) men do with their eyes and woman with their ears.
Love (n.) is risky. The heart was made to be broken.
Love (n.) is that thing for which we too often live. It is by love that we ought to live.
Love (n.) is a thing in which it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Love (n.) is a mutual misunderstanding.
Love (n.) is needed most by those who deserve it least — it is not the perfect but the imperfect who have need of love.
History (n.) is owed but one duty; to rewrite it.
History (n.) leaves one absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
History (n.) never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference.
History (n.) can be made by anybody. Only a great man can write it.
History (n.) has details that are always wearisome and usually inaccurate.
History (n.) would be quite unreadable if even men of the noblest possible moral character were not extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others.
Genius (n.) is a thief while talent is a borrower.
Progress's (n.) first step is discontent, in both a man and a nation.
A Friend (n.) is a true friend who stabs you in the front.
The Self (n.) is a good thing to strive to be, because everyone else is taken.
Family (n.) is so easy to dest because none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Chicago (n.) is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores.
A Cigarette (n.) is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure... exquisite, for it leaves one unsatisfied, and what more can one want'.