Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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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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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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To define is to limit.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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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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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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