The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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To define is to limit.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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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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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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