Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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 define is to limit.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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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 always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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