Oscar Wilde Quotes

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  Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Judging, Judgemental

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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fighting, Waiting, Wells

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• Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Being Happy, Being Yourself

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Complaining

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure

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• If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Panic

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  Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde

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• It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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• Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Live Your Life, Wish, Selfishness

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• Don't use big words. They mean so little.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Marketing, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “An Ideal Husband”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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

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• Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  God, Cat, Stupidity

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

  Oscar Wilde

  Contentment, Satisfied

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• Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Years, Advice

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• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Forgiving, Enemy

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• Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Crush

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• Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Men, Two

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Truth, Age

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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