Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
OSCAR WILDEYes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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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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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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 choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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