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title: "151 People Quotes By Oscar Wilde"
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> [Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/personally-i-have-a-great-admiration-for-stupidity/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The only real people are the people who never existed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-only-real-people-are-the-people-who-never-existed/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/only-dull-people-are-brilliant-at-breakfast/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-can-t-stand-people-that-do-not-take-food-seriously/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/vulgarity-is-simply-the-conduct-of-other-people/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The best people to work for are me, myself and I.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-best-people-to-work-for-are-me-myself-and-i/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [People are either charming or tedious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/people-are-either-charming-or-tedious/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Most people are boring and stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/most-people-are-boring-and-stupid/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [ Philanthropy \[has become\] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/philanthropy-has-become-simply-the-refuge-of-people-who-wish-to-annoy/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/none-of-us-can-stand-other-people-having-the-same-faults-as-ourselves/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/philanthropic-people-lose-all-sense-of-humanity-it-is-their/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-me-beauty-is-the-wonder-of-wonders-it-is-only-shallow-people-who/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/only-people-who-look-dull-ever-get-into-the-house-of-commons-and-only/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/when-people-talk-to-me-about-the-weather-i-always-feel-they-mean/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/musical-people-always-want-one-to-be-perfectly-dumb-at-the-very/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [To live is the most rarest thing in the world;most people exist,that is all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-live-is-the-most-rarest-thing-in-the-world-most-people-exist-that/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-first-thing-that-struck-me-on-landing-in-america-was-that-if-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/clergymen-and-people-who-use-phrases-without-wisdom-sometimes-talk-of/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/pray-don-t-talk-to-me-about-the-weather-mr-worthing-whenever-people-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/you-can-t-possibly-ask-me-to-go-without-having-some-dinner-it-s/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-are-only-two-kinds-of-people-who-are-really-fascinating-people/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-can-t-help-detesting-my-relations-i-suppose-it-comes-from-the-fact/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/yes-very-sensible-people-die-of-common-sense-dorian-one-lost-moment/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/good-intentions-have-been-the-ruin-of-the-world-the-only-people-who/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-only-shallow-people-who-require-years-to-get-rid-of-an-emotion/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-was-disappointed-in-niagara-most-people-must-be-disappointed-in/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-love-hearing-my-relations-abused-it-is-the-only-thing-that-makes-me/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-chiefly-i-regret-to-say-through-journalism-that-such-people/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/selfishness-is-not-living-as-one-wishes-to-live-it-is-asking-others/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/agitators-are-a-set-of-interfering-meddling-people-who-come-down-to/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/sin-is-a-thing-that-writes-itself-across-a-man-s-face-it-cannot-be-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/youth-there-is-nothing-like-youth-the-middle-aged-are-mortgaged-to-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/my-dear-boy-the-people-who-love-only-once-in-their-lives-are-really/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/all-modes-of-government-are-failures-despotism-is-unjust-to-everybody/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-world-has-become-sad-because-a-puppet-was-once-melancholy-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/your-machinery-is-beautiful-your-society-people-have-apologized-to-me/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Some people always know the price, but not the value](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/some-people-always-know-the-price-but-not-the-value/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Most people are other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/most-people-are-other-people/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/everyone-is-born-a-king-and-most-people-die-in-exile/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/do-not-be-afraid-of-the-past-if-people-tell-you-that-it-is-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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## More by Oscar Wilde

> [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/)

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> [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/)

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> [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/)

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> [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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