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Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.”
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.”
“The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“America is one long expectoration.”
Source: The picture of Dorian Gray: a modern theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel
“Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.”