Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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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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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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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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True friends stab you in the front.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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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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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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