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.
OSCAR WILDETo lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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