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 WILDEAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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