Oscar Wilde Quotations Human failings

I can resist everything except temptation

The reason we are so pleased to find other people’s secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
 

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
 

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
 

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
 

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
 

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
 

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of others.
 

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
 

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
 

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
 
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