A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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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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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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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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