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.
OSCAR WILDEHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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 only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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