Oscar Wilde Quotes about Success

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational, Success, Hope

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

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

Success, Congratulations, Succeeding In Life

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Success, Knowledge, Funny Thanksgiving

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

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

Success, Simple, Simplicity

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Success, Death

An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness, Success, Ambition

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions