Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar wilde - the basis for optimism is sheer terror....
Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Oscar wilde - truth, in matters of religion, is simply the...
Oscar wilde - i think that god in creating man somewhat...
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Oscar Wilde
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
Oscar Wilde
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
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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I can resist anything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
To disagree with three - Fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
Eduaction 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