"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
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Oscar Wilde
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
"The heart was made to be broken."
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."