Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
OSCAR WILDEAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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