All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
OSCAR WILDEQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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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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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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