Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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