Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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 have nothing to declare except my genius.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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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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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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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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