Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 4

• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Couple

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• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Fashion, Makeup

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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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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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• In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, War, Rich

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.267, Courier Dover Publications

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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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• Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moderation, All Things, Including

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• I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bags, Genius, Four

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• Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Simplicity, Healthy

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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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• Live the wonderful life that is in you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wonderful, Wonderful Life

  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.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Always be a little unexpected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Unexpected

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, Extravagance, Rich

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parent, Forgiving

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• Don't use big words. They mean so little.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Marketing, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “An Ideal Husband”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wonder, Express Yourself, Disappointed Love

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• A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895)

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• Any place that we love becomes our world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Our World, World

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• You are Beautiful when you are happy

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Beautiful, You Are Beautiful

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