Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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