The best quotes by Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

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Nothing makes you so lovable, as when feeling loved.

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When I like someone a lot I never say their name to anyone: it would be like giving part of them away. I've learnt to love the secret: it seems to me like the only thing that can make misterious - or marvellous - modern life.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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If you've found an answer to all your questions, it signifies your questions were wrong.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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"Yes" he continued "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.". [...] "This is your doing Henry"; said the painted sourly. Lord Henry shrugged: "This is the true Dorian Gray, that is all".