Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEMorality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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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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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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To define is to limit.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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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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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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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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