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#1

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: lifestyle, living, oscar-wilde

229 likes

#2

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art

153 likes

#3

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81803 likes

#4

“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

46489 likes

#5

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

tags: truth

17360 likes

#6

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

tags: humor-heaven

9699 likes

#7

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8699 likes

#8

“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

7128 likes

#9

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

tags: creation, god, humor, man

6378 likes

#10

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

tags: temptation

4267 likes

#11

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

tags: cynicism

4094 likes

#12

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

3861 likes

#13

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

tags: temptation

3859 likes

#14

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

3553 likes

#15

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

tags: humor, taste

3184 likes

#16

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

2953 likes

#17

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

2752 likes

#18

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

2185 likes

#19

“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

1964 likes

#20

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

1990 likes

#21

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

1438 likes

#22

“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

1506 likes

#23

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper

804 likes

#24

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult

762 likes

#25

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

619 likes

#26

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”
― Oscar Wilde

401 likes

#27

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
― Oscar Wilde

397 likes

#28

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: morality, naughty, wickedness

359 likes

#29

“The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
― McLandburgh Wilson

tags: perception, perspective

267 likes

#30

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
― Oscar Wilde

241 likes

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