Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDEA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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 may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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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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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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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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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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