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.
OSCAR WILDESome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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 public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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