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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  • A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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  • A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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  • A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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  • A man who is much talked about is always very attractive.
    The importance of being earnest (1895) act 2
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  • A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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  • A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
    The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895)
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  • A mask tells us more than a face.
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  • A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
    Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions
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  • A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
    The Pall Mall Gazette (14 oktober 1886) he Children of the Poets
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  • A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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  • A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
    The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3
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  • Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
    Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act
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  • All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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  • America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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  • An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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  • Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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  • Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
    The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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  • Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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  • Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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  • Art only begins where Imitation ends.
    De Profundis (1905)
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