Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
OSCAR WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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