Oscar Wilde epigrams

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
• Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
• Biography lends to death a new terror.
• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
• Genius is born--not paid.
• I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
• I am not young enough to know everything.
• I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
• Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
• One should always be a little improbable.
• To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
• Beauty, real beauty, ends where intellectual expression begins.
• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
• Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth