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Oscar Wilde Quotes [5]

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. ~Oscar Wilde

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ~Oscar Wilde

Life is too short to learn German ~Oscar Wilde

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

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Man is many things, but he is not rational. ~Oscar Wilde

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us. ~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

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. ~Oscar Wilde

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. ~Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ~Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ~Oscar Wilde

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ~Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. ~Oscar Wilde

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. ~Oscar Wilde

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. ~Oscar Wilde

No good deed goes unpunished. ~Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ~Oscar Wilde


Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught ~Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~Oscar Wilde

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. ~Oscar Wilde

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. ~Oscar Wilde

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. ~Oscar Wilde

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. ~Oscar Wilde

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. ~Oscar Wilde

One should always be a little improbable. ~Oscar Wilde

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

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

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

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ~Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves ~Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ~Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious ~Oscar Wilde

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ~Oscar Wilde

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