The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEYou don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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To define is to limit.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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