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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

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

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

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

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

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The great events of the world take place in the brain...”
― Oscar Wilde

“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
― Oscar Wilde