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#1

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

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

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#2

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

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#3

“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

71687 likes

#4

“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

46494 likes

#5

“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

20166 likes

#6

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

tags: truth

17366 likes

#7

“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: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14693 likes

#8

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

tags: education, fashion

14710 likes

#9

“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

11873 likes

#10

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

tags: humor-heaven

9701 likes

#11

“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

10916 likes

#12

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

tags: imagination, life, money

9084 likes

#13

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8925 likes

#14

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

815 likes

#15

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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#16

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

tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde

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#17

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: relationships

541 likes

#18

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: pleasure

466 likes

#19

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3454 likes

#20

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry

1672 likes

#21

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: death, lost-love, love, mourning

1113 likes

#22

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing

949 likes

#23

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”
― Dylan Thomas

391 likes

#24

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas

384 likes

#25

“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”
― Dylan Thomas

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#26

“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
― Dylan Thomas

288 likes

#27

“And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.”
― Dylan Thomas, Rebecca's Daughters

tags: exit, manners

182 likes

#28

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: poetry

128 likes

#29

“In my Craft or Sullen Art
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
. On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and palms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,”
― Dylan Thomas

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#30

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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