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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
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"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

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"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
— William Shakespeare

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
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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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"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
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"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
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
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"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

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

tags: cynicism
561 people liked it

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

tags: betrayal, friends
647 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
507 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
536 people liked it

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

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
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"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
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"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
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"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

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

tags: life, surrealistic
388 people liked it

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

406 people liked it

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

tags: fashion
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"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

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

tags: saint, sinner
358 people liked it

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

tags: america
259 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
263 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
237 people liked it

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

tags: love
246 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
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

tags: love, romance
232 people liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
190 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

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science
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"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
162 people liked it

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: music, sinister
138 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

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction
105 people liked it

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)"
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windemere's Fan)

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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
88 people liked it

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

tags: dorian, gray
102 people liked it

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
— Oscar Wilde

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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: romance
97 people liked it

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

82 people liked it

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
— Oscar Wilde

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"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, men, women
83 people liked it

"Only the shallow know themselves"
— Oscar Wilde

73 people liked it

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: comma, proofreading
69 people liked it

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