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#1

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism

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#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#3

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#4

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#5

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#6

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing

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#7

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: cynicism, humor, life

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#8

“For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.”
― Tolkien J.R.R., The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: comforting

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#9

“I'm a cynical idealist.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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#10

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
― Mark Twain

tags: cynical, funny, humour, review

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#11

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#12

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#13

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#14

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#15

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#16

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#17

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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#18

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#19

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#20

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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#21

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#22

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

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#23

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#24

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#25

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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#26

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#27

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#28

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

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#29

“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fair Game

tags: truth

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#30

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

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