I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
OSCAR WILDEAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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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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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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