Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 3

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Talent

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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

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

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• It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Two, Tragedy

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 74

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Blame, Funny Simpsons

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

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

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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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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• Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wonderful, Lost

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.28, Diversion Books

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Nonsense, Ideal Husband, Knows

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

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• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Love You, Heart

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• Life is too short to learn German

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, German Language, Insulting

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• I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Horse, Sex, Practice

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• A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Age And Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Ifs

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• To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Creativity, Character, Limits

  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.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fake, Wit

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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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• A flower blossoms for its own joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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