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Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)”
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.”
“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”
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