Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDEThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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How 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.
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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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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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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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