The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to 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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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