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Lady Windermere's Fan QUOTES

Lady Windermere's Fan QUOTES

1 " My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

2 " We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

3 " That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

4 " Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

5 " I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

6 " Experience is a question of instinct about life. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

7 " Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

8 " Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

9 " It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

10 " Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

11 " What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

12 " Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

13 " I can resist anything except temptation. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

14 " 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 world in its hypocrisy demands. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

15 " In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

16 " Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

17 " I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

18 " Love is easily killed. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

19 " It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan

20 " Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. "

― Oscar Wilde , Lady Windermere's Fan