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“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. 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

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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

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

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

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