One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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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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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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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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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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