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.
OSCAR WILDEA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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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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