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Oscar Wilde
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
"every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,"
none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be,
genius lasts longer than beauty.
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
I never heard such a voice. It was very low at first, with deep mellow notes that seemed to fall singly upon one's ear. Then it became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautboy.
Love makes people good, and what you said was wicked."
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
"I know what pleasure is," cried Dorian Gray. "It is to adore some one." "That is certainly better than being adored," he answered,
"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them." "I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us," murmured the lad gravely. "They create love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back."
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
"I give the truths of to-morrow." "I prefer the mistakes of to-day," she answered.
"Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Hamlet, I think – how do they run? "'Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart."
"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart,"
