Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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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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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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