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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Life

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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)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Funny, Life, Happiness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Love, Life, Best Friend

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

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Love, Life, Crush

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Funny, Life, Marriage

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Life, Truth, Age

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Funny, Life, Hilarious

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

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

Life is too short to learn German

Life, German Language, Insulting

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Life, Beautiful, Death

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Life, Wonderful, Wonderful Life

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.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Life, Horse, Entrepreneur

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love, Life, Confidence

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

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Life, Good Life, Sometimes

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Funny, Life, Inspiring

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Funny, Life, Witty

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

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Funny, Life, Break Up

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Love, Life, Sex

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.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

Only the shallow know themselves.

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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

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