Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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