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#1

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

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

81806 likes

#2

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

tags: imagination, life, money

9082 likes

#3

“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: arguments

185 likes

#4

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

tags: age

8464 likes

#5

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

tags: creation, god, humor, man

6379 likes

#6

“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

#7

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
― Voltaire

477 likes

#8

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

3937 likes

#9

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
― Oscar Wilde

86 likes

#10

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

3768 likes

#11

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: college, everybody, humility, incapable, learning, teaching, wit

137 likes

#12

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: morality, naughty, wickedness

359 likes

#13

“Time is a waste of money.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

40 likes

#14

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beer

478 likes

#15

“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

21 likes

#16

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

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8698 likes

#17

“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

1382 likes

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