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#1

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

tags: saint-sinner

#2

“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

11050 likes

#3

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

tags: imagination, life, money

9100 likes

#4

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

9967 likes

#5

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

tags: truth

17464 likes

#6

“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

14720 likes

#7

“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

71914 likes

#8

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

85488 likes

#9

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

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

82198 likes

#10

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

179140 likes

#11

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

6067 likes

#12

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

tags: temptation

4272 likes

#13

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

3888 likes

#14

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

tags: cynic

5491 likes

#15

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

tags: love

3239 likes

#16

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

tags: reading

3848 likes

#17

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

3988 likes

#18

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2599 likes

#19

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

tags: devil, hell, world

2867 likes

#20

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

tags: agree

2687 likes

#21

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: life-surrealistic

2369 likes

#22

“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

tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse

2274 likes

#23

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram, humor, men, women

2178 likes

#24

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

2001 likes

#25

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

1724 likes