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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox,- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde

The English public take no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is obscene.
-- Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken up teaching.
-- Oscar Wilde

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
-- Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

Genius is born, not paid.
-- Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurt's anyone's feelings unintentionally.
-- Oscar Wilde

The good end happily, the bad unhappily - that is what fiction means.
-- Oscar Wilde

He had the sort of face that, once seen, is never remembered.
-- Oscar Wilde

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
-- Oscar Wilde

He was always late on principle; his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
-- Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.
-- Oscar Wilde

I do not play cricket because it requires me to assume such indecent postures.
-- Oscar Wilde