Oscar Wilde Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

Some cause _______; others whenever ______.

A

i. happiness wherever they go

ii. whenever

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2
Q

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she _____?

A

were a perfectly normal human being

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3
Q

Experience is ____

A

simply the name we give our mistakes.

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4
Q

No great artist ever ______. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A

sees things as they really are

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5
Q

Men always want to be _____

A

a woman’s first love

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6
Q

Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to _____.

A

be a man’s last romance

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7
Q

Man is _________. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A

is least himself when he talks in his own person

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8
Q

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him _____.

A

a mask, and he will tell you the truth

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9
Q

Success is a science; if you have the ___.

A

conditions, you get the result

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10
Q

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines ____.

A

what you will be when you can’t help it

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11
Q

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to ____.

A

know more, and be more, and to do more.

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12
Q

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either ___.

A

charming or tedious

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13
Q

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he ___.

A

does not love her

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14
Q

____. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

A

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot

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15
Q

Fashion is a form of ____.

A

ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

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16
Q

_____. That is what the world calls a romance.

A

Deceiving others.

17
Q

All women become like their mothers. That ___. No man does. That’s his.

A

is their tragedy

18
Q

What is a cynic? ___.

A

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

19
Q

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will ___.

A

forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects

20
Q

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by ____.

A

blocking his retreat

21
Q

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that ___.

A

others might pick them up

22
Q

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we ___.

A

feel no one else has a right to blame us

23
Q

Questions are never indiscreet, _____.

A

answers sometimes are