We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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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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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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