I can resist everything except temptation.
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Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I
About Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright and wit, author of The Importance of Being Earnest. (1854-1900)
More from Oscar Wilde
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), ch. 1
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act I
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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- If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.Yogi Berra
- If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.Yogi Berra
- I really didn't say everything I said.Yogi Berra
- I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.Audrey Hepburn
- Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.Charlie Chaplin
- All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.Charlie Chaplin
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