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

tags: heaven, humor
847 people liked it

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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,298 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,240 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,203 people liked it

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult
222 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,591 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,879 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,126 people liked it

"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
2,237 people liked it

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

tags: truth
1,481 people liked it

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

tags: education, fashion
1,291 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,199 people liked it

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

tags: age
899 people liked it

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
735 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
689 people liked it

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

tags: betrayal, friends
638 people liked it

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

tags: cynicism
560 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex
520 people liked it

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

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
515 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
505 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
492 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
463 people liked it

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults
451 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

398 people liked it

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

tags: saint, sinner
356 people liked it

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

tags: temptation
338 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
338 people liked it

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

tags: temptation
341 people liked it

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

tags: fashion
337 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
329 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
328 people liked it

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

tags: america
255 people liked it

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: love
245 people liked it

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
248 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
236 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
242 people liked it

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

tags: love, romance
229 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
214 people liked it

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste
184 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
174 people liked it

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

tags: morality, philosophy
178 people liked it

"If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life."
— Oscar Wilde

155 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
149 people liked it

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

tags: men, women
145 people liked it

"There is no sin except stupidity."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: sin, stupidity
130 people liked it

"Youth is wasted on the young."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: elderly, growing, potential, respect, waste, youth
127 people liked it

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: agree
124 people liked it

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? "
— Oscar Wilde

121 people liked it

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

114 people liked it

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age, secret, trust, truth, woman
115 people liked it

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