Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

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“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
– Oscar Wilde

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde

“All art is quite useless.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]mans original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure”
– Oscar Wilde

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
– 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

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Everything popular is wrong.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Punctuality is the thief of time”
– Oscar Wilde

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
– Oscar Wilde

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Misfortunes one can endure – they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults – ah! There is the sting of life.”
– 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

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
– Oscar Wilde

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