Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDENowadays 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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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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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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