Oscar Wilde
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by Oscar Wilde:
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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” -Oscar Wilde
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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde
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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
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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” -Oscar Wilde
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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” -Oscar Wilde
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“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.” -Oscar Wilde
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“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” -Oscar Wilde
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” -Oscar Wilde
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“If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.” -Oscar Wilde
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“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” -Oscar Wilde
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“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.” -Oscar Wilde
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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” -Oscar Wilde
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“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” -Oscar Wilde
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“It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.” -Oscar Wilde
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“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.” -Oscar Wilde
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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” -Oscar Wilde
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
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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
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“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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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” -Oscar Wilde
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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” -Oscar Wilde
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“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.” -Oscar Wilde
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
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