Oscar Wilde quotes

Oscar Wilde

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
Truth Man You Mask
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
Happiness Go Others Cause
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
Oscar Wilde
Best I Am Always Satisfied Am
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
People Thoughts Someone Opinions
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
Oscar Wilde
Attitude People Morality Simply
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde
Future Past Difference Only
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
Education Time Remember Nothing
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
Life About Only Worse Being
"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."
Oscar Wilde
Dreams World Rest Way
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Oscar Wilde
Experience You Nothing Get
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
Funny Everything Temptation I Can
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
Oscar Wilde
Life Getting Only Two
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
Experience Name Mistakes Simply
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness Always Nothing Enemies
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness Time Children Parents
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde
Me People Feel Always
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
Oscar Wilde
Good Never Advice Only Good Advice
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
Oscar Wilde
Lose Like Looks Parent
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde
Life Art More Far
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde
Country America Civilization Only
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Good Better Ugly
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism Virtue Vicious
"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."
Oscar Wilde
Life Money I Am Important
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde
Art Great Artist Things He
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
Oscar Wilde
Life Love Heart Garden
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
Oscar Wilde
Friendship Best Bad Beginning
"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."
Oscar Wilde
Progress Ambition True More
"True friends stab you in the front."
Oscar Wilde
Friendship You True Friends Front
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
Oscar Wilde
Way Everything Temptation I Can
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde
Man Value Nothing Everything
"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
Oscar Wilde
Memory Diary Us About Carry
"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
Oscar Wilde
Women Loved Made Understood
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde
Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative
"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."
Oscar Wilde
Man Relationship Woman Happy
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
Truth Simple Never Pure Truth Is
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
Oscar Wilde
Work Art You Great
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
Oscar Wilde
Life Long You Romantic
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
Art World Individualism Most Mode
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Oscar Wilde
Love Friendship Women Relationship
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde
Love Women Man Men Woman
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde
Man Past Rich Enough
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
Oscar Wilde
Learning Teacher Who Everybody
"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde
Weather Conversation About Last
"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."
Oscar Wilde
Friendship Man Enemies Like
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
Oscar Wilde
Success Science You Result
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
Age Believe Everything Know Old
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
Stars Looking Us Gutter
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
Oscar Wilde
Women Man Like Tragedy
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
Oscar Wilde
Wish Us Prayers Answer Gods

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