Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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 nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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 mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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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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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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 have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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