Oscar Wilde Quotes

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

- Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

- Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

- Oscar Wilde

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

- Oscar Wilde

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

- Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

- Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

- Oscar Wilde

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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 richness to life that nothing else can bring.

- Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

- Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than good, but it is better to be good than ugly.

- Oscar Wilde

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Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

- Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

- Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

- Oscar Wilde

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

- Oscar Wilde

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- Oscar Wilde

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.