The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDEThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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 suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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To define is to limit.
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