Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDEThe suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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To define is to limit.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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