It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDEThe public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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