Oscar Wilde Quotes

  Oscar Wilde was a great Anglo-Irish novellist, poet and playwrite. 

He lived between 1854 and 1900.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

~ The Importance of Being Earnest

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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples,
and it is always Judas who writes the biography."

~ Intentions

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[definition of a cynic]
"A man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing"

~ Lady Windermere's Fan

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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily.  That is what fiction means."

~ The Importance of Being Earnest

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"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies"

~ The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it"

~ Intentions

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

~ The Importance of Being Earnest

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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

~ The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"Children begin by loving their parents,
after a time they judge them;
rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

~ A Woman of No Importance

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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal"

~ Intentions

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"I can resist everything except temptation"

~ Lady Windermere's Fan

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"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.  A woman who would tell one that
would tell one anything."

~ A Woman of No Importance

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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied."
 
~ The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"I have nothing to declare except by genius"

(at the New York Custom House)

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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

(in Fortnightly Review)

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"Experience is the name
everyone gives to their mistakes"

~ Lady Windermere's Fan

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"All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.
No man does. That's his."

~ The Importance of Being Earnest
(and also A Woman of No Importance)

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