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“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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#2

“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

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#3

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

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

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#4

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

tags: life

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#5

“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

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#6

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

tags: education, fashion

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#7

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: sorrow-holy

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#8

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

tags: insults, oscar-wilde

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#9

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: procrastination

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#10

“Punctuality is the thief of time”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: hedonism, time

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#11

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

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#12

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights

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#14

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

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#15

“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

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#16

“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

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#17

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#18

“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

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#19

“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

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#20

“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

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#21

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

tags: truth

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#22

“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

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#23

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

tags: age

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#24

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

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#25

“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

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#26

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#27

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

tags: cynicism

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#28

“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

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination

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#29

“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

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#30

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: women-mothers

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