A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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To define is to limit.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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