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Inspirational Quotes by Oscar Wilde

160 Inspirational quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Education is admirable, yet the quotes say some things cannot be taught, only felt. They warn that trying to change people can be dangerous, and they point out that true love is felt only when you love someone you love. Seeing beauty unlocks new understanding.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water…

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to…

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“That is one of the great secrets of life. Now days most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and…

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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about…

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into…

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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“We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what…

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“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not…

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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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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

Who, being loved, is poor?

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

Anybody can be good in the country

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

“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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…