Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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