The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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