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#1

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

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

#2

“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

1492 likes

#3

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression

1429 likes

#4

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

tags: sin-stupidity

1378 likes

#5

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

1244 likes

#6

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

1066 likes

#7

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84583 likes

#8

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71567 likes

#9

“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

46380 likes

#10

“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

21485 likes

#11

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20077 likes

#12

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

tags: education, fashion

14667 likes

#13

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

8162 likes

#14

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

7907 likes

#15

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

3335 likes

#16

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

3550 likes

#17

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

2951 likes

#18

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

tags: humor

2749 likes

#19

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2487 likes

#20

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

tags: humor-suspense

1544 likes

#21

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
― Oscar Wilde

731 likes

#22

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

768 likes

#23

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

695 likes

#24

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
― Oscar Wilde

679 likes

#25

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

587 likes

#26

“Punctuality is the thief of time”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: hedonism, time

523 likes

#27

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”
― Oscar Wilde

402 likes

#28

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, experience, knowledge

374 likes

#29

“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, misattributed-gustave-flaubert, proofreading

355 likes

#30

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”
― Oscar Wilde

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