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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
-- Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-- Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
-- Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as an omen. Fate does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
-- Oscar Wilde

A cigarette is the perfect type of Perfect Pleasure. It is exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied.
-- Oscar Wilde (contributed by Ian Cornelius Lai)

I said that if people tell you your mother is not prime minister anymore, you just turn around and say, 'So what? How often has your mother been prime minister?'
-- Ousted Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, recounting advice she gave her children

When I don't take a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and take a decision not to take a decision.
-- Outgoing Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao defending his reputation for indecisiveness

Exitus acta probat. (The result justifies the means.)
-- Ovid

Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
-- Pablo Picasso

Freedom in these United States is not cheap, but it must never become unaffordable.
-- R. Tennyson Phillips Jr.

Here it comes, ladies and gentlemen, and what a sight it is, a thrilling one, a marvelous sight... The sun is striking the windows of the observation deck on the westward side and sparkling like glittering jewels on the background of black velvet... Oh! Oh! Oh!... It's burst into flames... get out of the way, please, oh my, this is terrible, oh my, get out of the way, please, it is burning, bursting into flames and is falling... Oh! This is one the worst... Oh! It's a terrific sight... Oh! and all the humanity..."
-- Radio Commentator

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
-- Rebecca West

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