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#1

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

tags: education, fashion

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#2

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

tags: friends-betrayal

10309 likes

#3

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

3866 likes

#4

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, humour

3174 likes

#5

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

2674 likes

#6

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

tags: family, food, thanksgiving

2522 likes

#7

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults

1981 likes

#8

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

tags: sin-stupidity

1381 likes

#9

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

1251 likes

#10

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

6304 likes

#11

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

697 likes

#12

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: morality, naughty, wickedness

357 likes

#14

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2591 likes

#15

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation

1196 likes

#16

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper

804 likes

#17

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

740 likes

#18

“Punctuality is the thief of time”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: hedonism, time

523 likes

#19

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

562 likes

#20

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: feelings

490 likes

#21

“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, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2233 likes

#22

“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

7135 likes

#23

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

5405 likes

#24

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

tags: cynicism

4097 likes

#25

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

2183 likes

#26

“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
― Karl Marx

tags: humor, inspirational, last-words

258 likes

#27

“Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
― Simón Bolívar

tags: death, last-words, quotes, simon-bolivar

47 likes

#28

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

2594 likes

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