Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

-- Oscar Wilde

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