Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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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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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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