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.
OSCAR WILDEWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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 never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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