Experience is merely the name men gave to their 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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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To define is to limit.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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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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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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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 only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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