Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
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Men become old but they never become good.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Men know life too early women know life too late.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
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When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
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For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dénouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display.
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