More Of Oscar Wilde's Wit

I might be repeating myself - I adore Oscar Wilde's wit, & always find his cynicism & sarcasm most entertaining. Not sure whether I had posted before the following quotes or not; if so, I am not apologizing.

** A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

** A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

** A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

** A true friend stabs you in the front.

** All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

** Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

** As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

** As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

** Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

** Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

** Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

** I am not young enough to know everything.

** Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

** All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

** It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

** Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

** Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

** Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

** Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

** She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

** The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

** The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

** America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

** There is no sin except stupidity

** There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

** Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong

** Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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