A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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