Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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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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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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 very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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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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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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