More Oscar Wilde Quotes To Savor

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“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.’
– Oscar Wilde

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything but temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
– Oscar Wilde

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”
– Oscar Wilde

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