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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

#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

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

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#4

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

tags: education, fashion

14708 likes

#5

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

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6020 likes

#6

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

3553 likes

#7

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

2314 likes

#8

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: children, parents

3576 likes

#9

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

2508 likes

#10

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

1545 likes

#11

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#12

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#13

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humorous

1324 likes

#14

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation

1195 likes

#15

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

1437 likes

#16

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

1072 likes

#17

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: marriage

745 likes

#18

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life, love, wealth-of-soul

762 likes

#19

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

643 likes

#20

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
― Oscar Wilde

507 likes

#21

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: ennui

1136 likes

#22

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: memory

517 likes

#23

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

707 likes

#24

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: past, rich, wilde

556 likes

#25

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde

513 likes

#26

“I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
"Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

1383 likes

#27

“My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name, soldier boy?”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

1288 likes

#28

“I never thought about it before, but I'm proud to be human. We're ever so flawed. We're frail, confused, violent, and we struggle with so many issues. But all in all, I'm proud to be a Daughter of Man.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

tags: penryn

742 likes

#29

“Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

tags: angelfall, inspirational, susan-ee

463 likes

#30

“I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

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