Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
– Oscar Wilde
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- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. – Oscar Wilde
- One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde
- Most people are other people.Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde
- Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. – Oscar Wilde
- One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. – Oscar Wilde
- I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde
- It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. – Oscar Wilde
- I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. – Oscar Wilde
- I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance. – Oscar Wilde