Oscar Wilde was a Irish poet and playwright. He was born on 16th October 1854 in Westland row, Dublin, Ireland. Oscar Wilde’s literally reputation rests largely on his novel the picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and on his masterful comedies of manners lady Windermere’s fan (1892) and the importance of Being Ernest (1895). He was also known for his wit, his flamboyance, and his trial and jail sentence for homosexual acts.” The Ballad of reading Gaol” is Oscar Wilde’s most successful poem and was his last great work written before his death in 1900, he was died on 30th November 1900. He was a great poet.
Top 100 Oscar Wilde quotes.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious – both are disappointed.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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?
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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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!
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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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 nothing
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Live life with no excuses and travel with no regret.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
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I am a dreamer. For 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.
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
