I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDETo define is to limit.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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