With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
OSCAR WILDEIt takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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