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#1

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”
― David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation

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#2

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14739 likes

#3

“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

7440 likes

#4

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

8198 likes

#5

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

7174 likes

#6

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

3872 likes

#7

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: life-surrealistic

2358 likes

#8

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2590 likes

#9

“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

3781 likes

#10

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

9707 likes

#11

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2752 likes

#12

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

1543 likes

#13

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

429 likes

#14

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: optimism

1196 likes

#15

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

3187 likes

#16

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beer

478 likes

#17

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: poetry, wit

100 likes

#18

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

1422 likes

#19

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks

2074 likes

#20

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

6304 likes

#21

“I never change, except in my affections.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-iii

376 likes

#22

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse

2266 likes

#23

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

1252 likes

#24

“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”
― Quentin Crisp

53 likes

#25

“In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: kitsch-kingdom

7 likes

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