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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde 
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
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