Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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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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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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