The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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To define is to limit.
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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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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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