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I can now only remember this one which is amongst several others, written in the Oscar Wilde vessel that brought me from Cherbourg in France to Rosslare in Ireland in Dec 2012:

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. 🙂


Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
I can now only remember this one which is amongst several others, written in the Oscar Wilde vessel that brought me from Cherbourg in France to Rosslare in Ireland in Dec 2012:

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. 🙂
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything." -Oscar Wilde / "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde / "True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde / "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -Oscar Wilde

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde / "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being." -Oscar Wilde http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html


Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” -Oscar Wilde / “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” -Oscar Wilde / “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” -Oscar Wilde / “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” -Oscar Wilde / “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde / "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -Oscar Wilde / “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” -Oscar Wilde

http://quotesnsmiles.com/quotes/70-brilliant-oscar-wilde-quotes/


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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
- Oscar Wilde


Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” -Oscar Wilde / “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” -Oscar Wilde / “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” -Oscar Wilde / “The very ess ...[text shortened]... you can hear.” -Oscar Wilde

http://quotesnsmiles.com/quotes/70-brilliant-oscar-wilde-quotes/
I love everything he said in these quotes, except this one here, which I don't agree because when we are true friends, we are always happy with their success, no matter what:
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” -Oscar Wilde

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That was Hunter S. Thompson.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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He was such a rebel:

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
- Oscar Wilde

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Isn't this true:

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
- Oscar Wilde

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Originally posted by Tabitha Marshall
Isn't this true:

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
- Oscar Wilde
only dull people are brilliant at breakfast(I eat drink and drive to work before I wake up)

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” -Oscar Wilde

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