Ambition Quotes by Oscar Wilde

12 Ambition quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s 12 quips blend sharp humor with cautionary insight. They remind us that ambition can be both a dazzling performance and a precarious tightrope.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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“I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it…

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more,…

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never…

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“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the…

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of…

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“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that…

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in…

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

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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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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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