Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
OSCAR WILDEI have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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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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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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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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