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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Inspirational - Page 2

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

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Inspirational, Life, Love Is

Oscar Wilde (2008). “SALOM: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.187, Penguin

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Inspirational, Doe, Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Inspirational, Art, Trying

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1052, Wordsworth Editions

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Inspirational, Lying, Men

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Inspirational, Life, Death

'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Inspirational, Life, Courage

Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Inspirational, Attitude, Two

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Inspirational, Funny, Food

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Inspirational, Life, Death

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Inspirational, Optimism, Perspective

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Inspirational, Art, Mean

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Love, Inspirational, Men

"Two Society Comedies".

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Inspirational, Family, Happiness

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Inspirational, Education, Different

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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