To define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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