Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 3

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Meals, Dull

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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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• 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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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

  Oscar Wilde

  Procrastination, Tomorrow, Procrastinator

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Needs, Life Is, Need You

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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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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• The best revenge is to live well.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stay Strong, Revenge, Live Well

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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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• The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Self, Already Taken

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• Life is too short to learn German

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, German Language, Insulting

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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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  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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• Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fuel, Troll, Internet

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