The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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.
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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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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