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#1

“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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#2

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights

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#3

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

tags: genius, humour, oscar-wilde

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#4

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#5

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: experience

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#6

“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: salvation

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#7

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: popular-medocrity

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#8

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: desire, humor

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#10

“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: actions

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#11

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.

'Where do bad Americans go?'

'They stay in America'.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: paris

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#12

“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: love

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#15

“When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#16

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: holy, sorrow

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#17

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: lifestyle, living, oscar-wilde

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#18

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#19

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: oscar, sarcasm, wilde, wit

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#21

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age, wisdom

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#22

“Any place you love is the world to you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

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#23

“The great events of the world take place in the brain...”
― Oscar Wilde

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#24

“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: historical-fiction, history, oscar-wilde

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#25

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: music

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#26

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.'

'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: american-women, escape, eve, humor, lord-henry, paradise, sarcasm, women

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#28

“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#29

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: marriage

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#30

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salome: A Tragedy in One Act

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