Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…”
– Oscar Wilde

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
– Oscar Wilde

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
– Oscar Wilde

“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
– Oscar Wilde

“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women…merely adored.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginative”
– Oscar Wilde

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”
– Oscar Wilde

“Experience is one thing you cant get for nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things…I think of you day and night. Letter to Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas”
– Oscar Wilde

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other peoples.”
– Oscar Wilde

“She…can talk brilliantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
– Oscar Wilde

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
– 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

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
– Oscar Wilde

“I never change, except in my affections.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know loves tragedies.”
– Oscar Wilde

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