The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
OSCAR WILDEI have nothing to declare except my genius.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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