Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 4

• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Any place that we love becomes our world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Our World, World

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• Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Irony, Substitutes

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• Always be a little unexpected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Unexpected

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• Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parent, Forgiving

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• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  Oscar Wilde

  Punishment, Artistic Life, Judging

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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

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• Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Simplicity, Healthy

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, War, Rich

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.267, Courier Dover Publications

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• The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Fashion, Makeup

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Calling

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• You are Beautiful when you are happy

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Beautiful, You Are Beautiful

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• In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wonder, Express Yourself, Disappointed Love

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Free Will, Paradox

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.62, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fake, Wit

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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