I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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