A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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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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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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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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