Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

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“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

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

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life is too short to learn German”
– Oscar Wilde

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
– Oscar Wilde

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)”
– Oscar Wilde

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Only the shallow know themselves”
– Oscar Wilde

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you wont be invited to cocktail parties.”
– Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

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