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.
OSCAR WILDEI have nothing to declare except my genius.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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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 only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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 mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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