Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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To define is to limit.
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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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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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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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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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