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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

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

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“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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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#5

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

tags: truth

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#6

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

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

tags: friends-betrayal

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“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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#9

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#10

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#11

“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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#12

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#14

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

tags: classic-insult

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#15

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

tags: cynicism

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#16

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#17

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#18

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#19

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

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#20

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious

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#21

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love

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#22

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

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#23

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#24

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#25

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents

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#26

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#28

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#29

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox

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#30

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom

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