To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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