Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

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  • Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
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  • 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.
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  • London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
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  • Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
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  • Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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  • Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
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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.
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  • Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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  • Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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  • Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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  • Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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  • Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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  • Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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  • Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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  • Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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  • Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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  • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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  • Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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  • Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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