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.
OSCAR WILDEHow can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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