The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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