You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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

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

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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

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What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

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Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

—Johnny Carson

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

—Virgil Thomson

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So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

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