The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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