Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
OSCAR WILDEYou can never be overdressed or overeducated.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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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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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid 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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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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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 nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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