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 WILDEWe live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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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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