Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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  God, Cat, Stupidity

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

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  Opportunity, Optimism, Complaining

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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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• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Contentment, Satisfied

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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  Life Is Too Short, Taken, Life Is

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• Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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  Nature, Bird, Environment

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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  Funny, Humor, Men

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• The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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  Funny, Life, Marriage

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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  Love, Life, Best Friend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Differentiate

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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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• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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  Genius, Talent

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• Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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  Taken, Self, Already Taken

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

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  Children, Years, Advice

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• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.641, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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  Long, Meals, Dull

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