Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
OSCAR WILDELife is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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To define is to limit.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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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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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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