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"53 Oscar Wilde Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 16 October 1854. Died: 30 November 1900 | Writer | Poet |

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself Everyone Taken
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Taught Worth Admirable Remember
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Love Someone Look Clothes
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Cause Go Happiness Others
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Between Difference Every Future
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Books Calls Immoral Own
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Always Annoys Enemies Forgive
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Agree Always Feel Me
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Ambition Each Each One Kingdom
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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.

Before Dawn Dreamer Find
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience Give Mistakes Name
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Learns Lessons Many Prison
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Any Good Good Advice
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Else Lives Most Opinions
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Asking Live Living Others
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Dead Flowers Garden Heart
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Conditions Get Result Science
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Being Dangerous Idea Unworthy
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Always Any Good
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art Far Imitates Life
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True friends stab you in the front.

Friends Front True True Friends
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Advances Begins Blocking Ends
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Artist Cease Did Ever
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Always Am Best I Am
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give He Him Himself
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Again Book Cannot Enjoy
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

Cynic Everything Knows Man
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Art Disturbing Force Individualism
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Never Pure Rarely Simple
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Better Fascinating Income Permanent
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Artist Every Feeling Painted
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Back Buy Enough His
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Be Happy Being Expected Happy
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

About Carry Diary Memory
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Everything Get I Can Only
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

About Ever Far Important
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Calls Deceiving Others Romance
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition Failure Last Refuge
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Blind Hatred Love Well
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Bad Beginning Best Ending
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Absolutely Dangerous Dangerous Thing Deal
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

About Being Life One Thing
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Expect Expect The Unexpected Intellect Modern
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Am Clever I Am Saying
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

Full Know London People
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Always First First Love Last
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience Get Nothing One Thing
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Oscar Wilde Quotes & Sayings