It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDEThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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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You 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.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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