The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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