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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• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

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  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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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.

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  Fighting, Waiting, Wells

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• Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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  Motivational, Being Happy, Being Yourself

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Hope

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

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

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  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.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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  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.

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  Pleasure

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• Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.

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  Jesus, Decision, Doubt

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  Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

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

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• To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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  Vision, Different, Looks

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.753, GENERAL PRESS

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

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  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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

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  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

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  Kissing, Men, Hands

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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  Winning, Blame, Funny Simpsons

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• The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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  Needs, Life Is, Need You

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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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?

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  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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

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  Pay, Sooner Or Later

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

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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.

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  Live Your Life, Wish, Selfishness

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

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  Funny, Life, Happiness

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

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• I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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  Nonsense, Ideal Husband, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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  Hypocrisy, World, Demand

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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