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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland, was a brilliant playwright, poet, and novelist renowned for his sharp wit, flamboyant style, and keen social observations. Wilde’s most famous works, including “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and “An Ideal Husband,” showcase his talent for blending humor with incisive critiques of Victorian society. A master of epigrams, Wilde’s sayings are often quoted for their cleverness and insight into human nature. Despite his literary success, Wilde’s life was marred by scandal; his open homosexuality led to a highly publicized trial and imprisonment, which ultimately contributed to his untimely death on November 30, 1900, in Paris. Wilde’s legacy endures as one of the most influential and celebrated literary figures of the 19th century, and his works continue to captivate and inspire readers around the world.

  • “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
  • “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “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
  • “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I can resist everything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “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
  • “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “There is no sin except stupidity.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously—and have somebody find out.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “No good deed goes unpunished.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” — Oscar Wilde

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