Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
OSCAR WILDEFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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