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- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde
- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
- The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- 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
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- Oscar Wilde
- We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
- Oscar Wilde
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde
- Wisdom comes with winters.
- Oscar Wilde
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"
- The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
- I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
- Oscar Wilde, Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest
- When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde, In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
- One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi, 1882
- Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan
- My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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