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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Life, Wonderful, Lost

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.28, Diversion Books

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Men, Names, Panic

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Happiness, Flower, Joy

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Funny, Clever, Hipster

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Thinking, Two, Tragedy

Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 74

To define is to limit.

Creativity, Character, Limits

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Graduation, Education, Time

Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Children, Years, Advice

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Nonsense, Ideal Husband, Knows

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

People, Luck, Enemy

LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

People, Forgiving, Enemy

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Temptation

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Procrastination, Tomorrow, Procrastinator

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Funny, Marriage, Sexy

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Stars, Men, Two

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Funny, Life, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Passion, Secret, Age And Youth

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation

The best revenge is to live well.

Stay Strong, Revenge, Live Well

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Punishment, Artistic Life, Judging

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