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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  • The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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  • The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
    In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
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  • The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
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  • The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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  • The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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  • The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
    The Critic as Artist (1891)
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  • The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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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.
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  • The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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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.
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  • The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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  • The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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  • The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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  • The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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  • The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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  • The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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  • The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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  • The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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  • The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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  • The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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