To define is to limit.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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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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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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