Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEThe suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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