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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Inspirational

All Oscar Wilde 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 quotes 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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Inspirational, Funny, Cat

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.641, Cosimo, Inc.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Inspirational, Funny, Positive

Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Inspirational, Success, Hope

Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Love, Inspirational, Positive

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Inspirational, Writing, Thinking

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Inspirational, Irony, Substitutes

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Inspirational, Money, Real

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Inspirational, Beautiful, You Are Beautiful

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895)

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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

Inspirational, Confused, Work

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

There is no sin except stupidity.

Inspirational, Stupid, Silly

'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Soul

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love, Inspirational, Funny

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Inspirational, Dream, Future

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.568, Wordsworth Editions

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Inspirational, Anger, Reading

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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