Best Oscar Wilde Quotes and Quotations

Best Oscar Wilde Quotes and Quotations

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Oscar Wilde
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde