Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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