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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  • I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.
    The Devoted Friend
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  • I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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  • I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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  • If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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  • If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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  • If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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  • If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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  • If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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  • If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
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  • If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
    An Ideal Husband (1895) Act IV.
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  • If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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  • If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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  • Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
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  • Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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  • In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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  • In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
    The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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  • In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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  • In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
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  • In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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  • In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.
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