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Failure Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde calls mistakes experience and warns that shallow loyalty is a sign of emptiness. He says murder is a mistake you should never be able to discuss at dinner. He also criticizes a world where success goes to the strong and failure to the weak.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature”

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure…

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing…

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my…

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever…

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Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they…

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life…

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“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call…

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure…

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done…

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“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what…

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“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at…

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“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think.…

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“Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people…

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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve…

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the…

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“My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

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“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever…

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“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life…

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“The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…

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“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit quietly and gape at the play.…

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies…

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“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the…

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

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“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since…

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…