It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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 suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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 have nothing to declare except my genius.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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To define is to limit.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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