Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
OSCAR WILDELive! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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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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To define is to limit.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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