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#1

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

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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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#3

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

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

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#4

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#5

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#6

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious

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#7

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: life-surrealistic

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#8

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#9

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

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#10

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#11

“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

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#12

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed-no-source

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#15

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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#17

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman

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#18

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

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#19

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram, humor, men, women

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#20

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#21

“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

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#22

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

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#23

“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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#24

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: stupidity

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#25

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

tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression

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#26

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, love, marriage

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#27

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

tags: marriage

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#28

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: love, man, woman

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#29

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#30

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
― Oscar Wilde

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