A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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To define is to limit.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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