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

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

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

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
― Oscar Wilde

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”
― Oscar Wilde

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. (Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest)”
― Oscar Wilde

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!”
― Oscar Wilde

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter