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#1

“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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#2

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

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#3

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

tags: truth

17364 likes

#4

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

tags: humor, taste

3183 likes

#5

“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

tags: humor

3767 likes

#6

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

tags: cynic

5390 likes

#7

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

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#8

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

tags: woman-s-charm

657 likes

#9

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

tags: beauty, humour

3174 likes

#10

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

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#11

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

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#12

“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

tags: men-and-women

654 likes

#13

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

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#14

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

tags: education, experience, knowledge

374 likes

#15

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

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#16

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

tags: desire, humor

257 likes

#17

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

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#18

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

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#19

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

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#20

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

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#21

“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

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#22

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

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#23

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

tags: body, drink, oscar-wilde, soul

256 likes

#24

“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

tags: happy

322 likes

#25

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

tags: temptation

3862 likes

#26

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

tags: paraphrased, truth-in-jest

138 likes

#27

“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

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#28

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

tags: children, parents

3573 likes

#29

“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

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#30

“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

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

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