When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.