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.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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