Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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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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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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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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