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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    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
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love
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  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    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
    tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour
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    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
    tags: humor, seriousness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: america
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    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
    tags: sin-stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humorous
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
    1423 likes



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