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This book features a compilation of Oscar Wilde's concise, clever, and often cutting epigrams, showcasing his sharp wit and social commentary.
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“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
“It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.”
“I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.”
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
“The only proper intoxication is conversation.”
“The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.”
“I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.”
“The secret of life is in art.”
“Bad manners make a journalist.”
“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
“The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.”
“If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty”
“Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.”
“The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.”
“One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.”
“No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.”
“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.”
“Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.”