I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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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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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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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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