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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 6

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Clever, Long, Hearing

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

Where your life leads you, you must go

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Running, People, Impossible

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life, Cynical, Fairness

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.57, Wordsworth Editions

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Graduation, Knowing, Taught

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Bags, Genius, Four

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Positive, Gratitude, Appreciation

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

Friendship, Moving, Doors

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Oysters, World, Table Manners

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Kings, People, Self Help

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.823, GENERAL PRESS

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Pay, Sooner Or Later

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Men, Progress, Evolution Of Man

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1065, Wordsworth Editions

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Wisdom, Fun, People

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Stores, Exquisite

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Inspirational, Confused, Work

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

People, World, This World

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Funny, Positive, Attitude

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Real, Individuality, Society

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Pain, True Friend, Mean

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.346, Wordsworth Editions

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Love, Dream, Two

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Love, Inspirational, Funny

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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