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#1

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: paraphrased

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#2

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

84876 likes

#3

“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

71689 likes

#4

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

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

81815 likes

#5

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177145 likes

#6

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11877 likes

#7

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

tags: education, fashion

14707 likes

#8

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

tags: age

8469 likes

#9

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

8185 likes

#10

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

tags: humor-heaven

9700 likes

#11

“Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly.”
― Diogenes

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#12

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau

tags: cats, home

705 likes

#13

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: dogs

244 likes

#14

“Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story

tags: animals, criticisms, true-friends

234 likes

#15

“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard

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#16

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs

1673 likes

#17

“No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: pets

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