Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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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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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, 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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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To define is to limit.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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