Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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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To define is to limit.
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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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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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