The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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 have nothing to declare except my genius.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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