Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 5

• Circumstances should never alter principles!

  Oscar Wilde

  Principles, Should, Circumstances

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Irony, Substitutes

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• I have a simple taste, only the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Luxury, Taste

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

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• Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Ears

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• To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, This World

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• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Feelings, World, Deeds

  "God Hides in Plain Sight: How to See the Sacred in a Chaotic World". Book by Dean Nelson, September 1, 2009.

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• You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, I've Changed

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, History

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Dream, Two

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• Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Sooner Or Later

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• A mask tells us more than a face.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faces, Mask

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.848, GENERAL PRESS

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Way, Were Meant To Be

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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Appearance

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