Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 11

• Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Witty

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• It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Age, World

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• I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Birthday, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, Flower, Garden

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Heart, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Evil, Luck

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

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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

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• The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Curves, Lips

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Good Life, Sometimes

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• It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Logic, Easy, Difficult

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

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

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• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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  Memories, Passion, Yield

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “SALOM: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, I Have Learned, Consequence

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• They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Sex

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, Let Me, Can Do

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• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Correspondence, Ifs

  Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

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• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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  Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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