I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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To define is to limit.
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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