Oscar Wilde Quotes

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fighting, Waiting, Wells

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  Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Judging, Judgemental

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure

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• Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Motivational, Being Happy, Being Yourself

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• With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Sometimes

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• It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Live Your Life, Wish, Selfishness

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• Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

  Oscar Wilde

  Lasts, Conformity, Refuge

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• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs

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• The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Needs, Answers

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• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Blame, Funny Simpsons

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Writing, Thinking

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• I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Love You, Heart

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• Life is too short to be taken seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is Too Short, Taken, Life Is

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• God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Law, People

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  Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde

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• Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  God, Cat, Stupidity

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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