More Oscar Wilde Quotes To Savor

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“I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”
– Oscar Wilde

“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
– Oscar Wilde

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Genius is born–not paid.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
– Oscar Wilde

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