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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• Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Being Happy, Being Yourself

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure

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• I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sorrow, Might, Helping

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1766, e-artnow

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Writing, Thinking

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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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• The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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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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• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  Oscar Wilde

  Punishment, Artistic Life, Judging

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, People, Lovely

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.13, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Chaos, Nightmare

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• Always be a little unexpected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Unexpected

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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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