Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
– Oscar Wilde

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves”
– Oscar Wilde

“By each let this be heard”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some do it with a bitter look”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some with a flattering word”
– Oscar Wilde

“The coward does it with a kiss”
– Oscar Wilde

“The brave man with a sword”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are moments when one has to choose between living ones own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the worlds original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
– Oscar Wilde

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