Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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