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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no sin except stupidity.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #32
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #33
    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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