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| "Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan |  |
| "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "I can resist everything except temptation." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "I prefer women with a past. They're always so demmed amusing to talk to." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
