The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDETo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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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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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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