I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
OSCAR WILDEWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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