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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,166 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
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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."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,727 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,368 people liked it

"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: holy, sorrow
64 people liked it

"She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: insults, oscar, wilde
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"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after."
— Oscar Wilde

59 people liked it

"Punctuality is the thief of time"
— Oscar Wilde

52 people liked it

"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency
86 people liked it

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
— Oscar Wilde

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"Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them."
— Oscar Wilde

86 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
602 people liked it

"'I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.'

'A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.'"
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks
155 people liked it

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

71 people liked it

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dorian, gray
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,346 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,100 people liked it

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
766 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,568 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
724 people liked it

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
958 people liked it

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
818 people liked it

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
984 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
780 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
589 people liked it

"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."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
578 people liked it

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: books, humor
522 people liked it

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: mothers, women
575 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
711 people liked it

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: children, humor, parents
350 people liked it

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
350 people liked it

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
351 people liked it

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

tags: love
382 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
554 people liked it

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america
274 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
491 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
904 people liked it

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
412 people liked it

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox
175 people liked it

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, knowledge
459 people liked it

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion
363 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
346 people liked it

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness
253 people liked it

"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, work
225 people liked it

"I can resist anything, except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
365 people liked it

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: emotions, mercy
180 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
401 people liked it

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: morality, philosophy
190 people liked it

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