I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDELife is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. 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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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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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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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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