Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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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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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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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