Top Quotes of Oscar Wilde
- “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
- “True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Whenever people agree with me i always feel i must be wrong.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.” – Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Life
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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When i was young i thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that i am old i know that it is.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I put all my genius into my life; i put only my talent into my works.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes on Women
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Marriage Quotes of Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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Quotes on Sin by Oscar Wilde
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Other Famous Quotes of Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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I am the only person in the world i should like to know thoroughly.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I am so clever that sometimes i don’t understand a single word of what i am saying.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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I have never given adoration to any body except myself.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
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The man who can dominate a london dinner-table can dominate the world.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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