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“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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

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#4

“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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#5

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#6

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

tags: truth

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#7

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#8

“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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#9

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

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#10

“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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#11

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#12

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

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#13

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#14

“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

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#15

“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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#16

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#17

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

tags: saint-sinner

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#18

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#19

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#20

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

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#21

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#22

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#23

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#24

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

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#25

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

tags: temptation

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#26

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#27

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

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#28

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

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#29

“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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#30

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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