Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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