Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
OSCAR WILDEHe has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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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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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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