The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
– Oscar Wilde
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- No man is rich enough to buy back his past. – Oscar Wilde
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past. – Oscar Wilde
- One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. – Oscar Wilde
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
- I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
- He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
- Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
- Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
- Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
- Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
- To become a work of art is the object of living. – Oscar Wilde
- The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. – Oscar Wilde
- The Noblest form of Affection – Oscar Wilde
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. – Oscar Wilde
- Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
- Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
- Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
- I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss. – Oscar Wilde
- Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. – Oscar Wilde
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
- It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. – Oscar Wilde
- People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. – Oscar Wilde
- Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
- They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
- It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. – Oscar Wilde
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde
- You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
- America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. – Oscar Wilde
- The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde
- Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. – Oscar Wilde