Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 16

• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Where there is no love there is no understanding.

  Oscar Wilde

  Understanding, Extravagance, No Love

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.596, Oscar Wilde

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• Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Consistency, Hallmark

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• There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

  Oscar Wilde

  Shallow, Lost, Found

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

  Oscar Wilde

  Architecture, Mankind, Ifs

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.215, OUP Oxford

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• When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Happy Valentines Day, Waiting

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Experience is a question of instinct about life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Instinct

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.228, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Debt, Pay

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• To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Harmony, Be Good

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.214, Oscar Wilde

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• we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

  Oscar Wilde

  Misunderstood, Understood

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

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• When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Use, Fit

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• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Use, Lessons, Pity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Men, Suits

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• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Maturity, Night

  1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

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• Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heaven, Hell, Heaven And Hell

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.135, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Thinking, Optimism

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1052, Wordsworth Editions

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• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

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• Genius lasts longer than beauty

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Lasts, Intellectualism

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.16, Diversion Books

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

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