The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDECrying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Humanity 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.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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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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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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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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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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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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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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