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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  • He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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  • His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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  • 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.
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  • How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
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  • How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
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  • How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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  • However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
    Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
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  • I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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  • I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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  • I am dying beyond my means.
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  • I am not young enough to know everything.
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  • I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
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  • I can resist everything except temptation.
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  • I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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  • I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
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  • I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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  • I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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  • I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
    Source: The remarkable Rocket
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  • I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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  • I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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