Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDEOne should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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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 basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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