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40 Quotes of Oscar

WildeJAMIE FRATEROCTOBER 8, 2007Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com

There is no doubt that Oscar Wide was one o! the most witt" men to

come !rom the British #ses and probab" the word$ #t is %irtua"

impossibe to !ind an"thin& he wrote which did not show at east a

&immer o! his &enius$ This is a seection o! '0 o! his &reatest(uotations$

Quotations 1 10

)$ * itte sincerit" is a dan&erous thin&, and a &reat dea o! it is

absoute" !ata$

2$ * man can be happ" with an" woman as on& as he does not o%e

her$

+$ *wa"s !or&i%e "our enemies nothin& anno"s them so much$
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'$ *merica is the on" countr" that went !rom barbarism to decadence

without ci%ii-ation in between$

.$ *n"one who i%es within their means su!!ers !rom a ack o!

ima&ination$

/$ *r&uments are to be a%oided the" are awa"s %u&ar and o!ten

con%incin&$

7$ Bio&raph" ends to death a new terror$

8$ ashion is a !orm o! u&iness so intoerabe that we ha%e to ater it

e%er" si1 months$

$ # am not "oun& enou&h to know e%er"thin&$

)0$ # think that 3od in creatin& 4an somewhat o%erestimated his

abiit"$

Quotations 11 20

))$ # was workin& on the proo! o! one o! m" poems a the mornin&,

and took out a comma$ #n the a!ternoon # put it back a&ain$ 56ote:

remember

)2$ #usion is the !irst o! a peasures$

)+$ #t is a %er" sad thin& that nowada"s there is so itte useess

in!ormation$
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)'$ 4ost modern caendars mar the sweet simpicit" o! our i%es b"

remindin& us that each da" that passes is the anni%ersar" o! some

per!ect" uninterestin& e%ent$

).$ One shoud awa"s pa" !air" when one has the winnin& cards$

)/$ atriotism is the %irtue o! the %icious$

)7$ e!ishness is not i%in& as one wishes to i%e, it is askin& others to

i%e as one wishes to i%e$

)8$ The on" thin& to do with &ood ad%ice is pass it on$ #t is ne%er an"

use to onese!$

)$ The on" thin& worse than bein& taked about is not bein& taked

about$

20$ The true m"ster" o! the word is the %isibe, not the in%isibe$

Quotations 21 30

2)$ To disa&ree with three9!ourths o! the British pubic is one o! the !irst

re(uisites o! sanit"$

22$ Whene%er peope a&ree with me # awa"s !ee # must be wron&$
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2+$ The on" thin& that sustains one throu&h i!e is the consciousness

o! the immense in!eriorit" o! e%er"bod" ese, and this is a !eein& that #

ha%e awa"s cuti%ated$

2'$ # dont pa" accurate"9an" one can pa" accurate"9 but # pa" with

wonder!u e1pression$ *s !ar as the piano is concerned, sentiment is

m" !orte$ # keep science !or ;i!e$

2.$ When the &ods wish to punish us, the" answer our pra"ers$

2/$ Work is the curse o! the drinkin& casses$

27$ 4" own business awa"s bores me to death # pre!er other

peopes$

28$ # can resist an"thin& but temptation$

2$ ;i!e is !ar too important a thin& e%er to tak serious" about$

+0$ E1perience is the name e%er"one &i%es to their mistakes$

Quotations 31 40

+)$ canda is &ossip made tedious b" morait"$

+2$ We are a in the &utter, but some o! us are ookin& at the stars$
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++$ What is a c"nic< * man who knows the price o! e%er"thin& and the

%aue o! nothin&$

+'$ =ie deeds ike poison weeds boom we in prison air, it is on"

what is &ood in man, that wastes and withers there$

+.$ We ha%e rea" e%er"thin& in common with *merica nowada"s

e1cept, o! course, an&ua&e$

+/$ The pubic is wonder!u" toerant$ #t !or&i%es e%er"thin& e1cept

&enius$

+7$ The truth is rare" pure and ne%er simpe$

+8$ Thirt"9!i%e is a %er" attracti%e a&e$ ;ondon societ" is !u o! women

o! the %er" hi&hest birth who ha%e, o! their own !ree choice, remained

thirt"9!i%e !or "ears$

+$ # ike persons better than principes, and # ike persons with no

principes better than an"thin& ese in the word$

'0$ # o%e actin&$ #t is so much more rea than i!e$

70 BRILLIANT OSCAR WILDE

QUOTES

Oscar Wildewas an Irish writer and poet. After experimenting with his writing, in the 1980s, he>

became one of Londons most popular play writers. Today he is remembered for plays and beautiful words

that have been quoted below in a compilation if70 Brilliant Oscar Wilde Quotes.


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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.

- Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

- Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

- Oscar Wilde

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

- Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

- Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyll kill you.

- Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

- Oscar Wilde


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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

- Oscar Wilde

No good deed goes unpunished.

- Oscar Wilde

I dont want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

- Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

- Oscar Wilde

A mans face is his autobiography. A womans face is her work of fiction.

- Oscar Wilde


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To define is to limit.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying.

- Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

- Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you dont have to that determines what you will be when you cant help it.

- Oscar Wilde


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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

- Oscar Wilde

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

- Oscar Wilde

I dont want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

- Oscar Wilde

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

- Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their

passions a quotation.

- Oscar Wilde

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

- Oscar Wilde

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


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I am not young enough to know everything.

- Oscar Wilde

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

- Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

- Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken.

- Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

- Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

- Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

- 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


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You dont love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a

song only you can hear.

- Oscar Wilde

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

- Oscar Wilde

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are

the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral

book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

- Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like youre ordinary.

- Oscar Wilde

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

- Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise

with a friends success.

- Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

- Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

- Oscar Wilde


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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

- Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything,

and people who know absolutely nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

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

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

- Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

- Oscar Wilde

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

- Oscar Wilde

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

- Oscar Wilde


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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the worlds original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh,

History would have been different.

- 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

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

- Oscar Wilde

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

- 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

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

- Oscar Wilde

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

- Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

- Oscar Wilde

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