Oscar Wilde Quotes

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

• Life
• Time
• Hope
• Hypocrisy
• Wicked

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• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Time
  • Hope