More Oscar Wilde Quotes To Savor

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“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean”
– Oscar Wilde

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past”
– Oscar Wilde

“The heart was made to be broken”
– Oscar Wilde

“Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.”
– Oscar Wilde

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The final mystery is oneself.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived”
– Oscar Wilde

“Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact”
– Oscar Wilde

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
– Oscar Wilde

“When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a mans last romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building”
– Oscar Wilde

“Hear no evil, speak no evil – and you’ll never be invited to a party”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Don’t give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening”
– Oscar Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude”
– Oscar Wilde

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