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.
OSCAR WILDEEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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 are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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