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Oscar Wilde
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Oscar Wilde
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
Oscar Wilde
“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
Oscar Wilde
“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Oscar Wilde
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Oscar Wilde
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
Oscar Wilde
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”
Oscar Wilde
“I can resist anything but temptation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Oscar Wilde
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
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“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
Oscar Wilde
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
Oscar Wilde
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
Oscar Wilde
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Oscar Wilde
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Oscar Wilde
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”
Oscar Wilde
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Oscar Wilde
“I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.”
Oscar Wilde
