The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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