Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
by Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- 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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- 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

An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

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

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- 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

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- 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 man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- 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

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
by Oscar Wilde