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Oscar Wilde: Ignorance is like...

Oscar Wilde: Ignorance is like...

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Source: Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: I never travel...

Oscar Wilde: I never travel...

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah! Don't say...

Oscar Wilde: Ah! Don't say...

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be...

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Oscar Wilde: It is personalities...

Oscar Wilde: It is personalities...

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Source: The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...

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Oscar Wilde: Everybody who is...

Oscar Wilde: Everybody who is...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Source: Vivian, in...

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George Bernard Shaw: If all the...

George Bernard Shaw: If all the...

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

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George Bernard Shaw: Success covers a...

George Bernard Shaw: Success covers a...

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Source:
-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26...

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George Bernard Shaw: This is the...

George Bernard Shaw: This is the...

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being...

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George Bernard Shaw: Better keep yourself...

George Bernard Shaw: Better keep yourself...

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world.

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George Bernard Shaw: Great art is...

George Bernard Shaw: Great art is...

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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George Bernard Shaw: Do not love...

George Bernard Shaw: Do not love...

Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an...

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George Bernard Shaw: I am sure...

George Bernard Shaw: I am sure...

I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never...

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George Bernard Shaw: In the arts...

George Bernard Shaw: In the arts...

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry...

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George Bernard Shaw: In Ireland they...

George Bernard Shaw: In Ireland they...

In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment...

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George Bernard Shaw: I am a...

George Bernard Shaw: I am a...

I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor.

Source: Man and Superman.
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George Bernard Shaw: I never resist...

George Bernard Shaw: I never resist...

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me never tempt...

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George Bernard Shaw: My way of...

George Bernard Shaw: My way of...

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is dangerous...

George Bernard Shaw: It is dangerous...

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Source: Man and Superman,...

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William Wordsworth: That was the...

William Wordsworth: That was the...

That was the song - the song for me!

Source: O Nightingale.
-- William...

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