One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
OSCAR WILDEFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at 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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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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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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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