Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

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  • A kiss may ruin a human life.
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  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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  • A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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  • Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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  • A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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  • A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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  • Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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  • A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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  • Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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  • A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
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  • Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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  • Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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  • My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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  • A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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  • A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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  • And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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  • Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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