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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
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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 not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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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
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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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
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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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
    “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
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: life-surrealistic
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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 can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: women-rebel
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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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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto
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    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humorous, naughty, wordplay
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram, humor, men, women
    2171 likes



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