It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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To define is to limit.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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 public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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