An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDEThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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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