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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

#2

“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

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#3

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82058 likes

#4

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

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#5

“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

46658 likes

#6

“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

25552 likes

#7

“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

21569 likes

#8

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17433 likes

#9

“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

20273 likes

#10

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

tags: education, fashion

14767 likes

#11

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

tags: humor-heaven

9710 likes

#12

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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#13

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#14

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

9103 likes

#15

“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

14717 likes

#16

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

tags: age

8483 likes

#17

“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

tags: sin

11001 likes

#18

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#19

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

7907 likes

#20

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

6392 likes

#21

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8755 likes

#22

“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

6316 likes

#23

“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

7151 likes

#24

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#25

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

tags: power, sex

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#26

“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

7468 likes

#27

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

12105 likes

#28

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7413 likes

#29

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

5815 likes

#30

“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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