Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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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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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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