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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.
The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.