Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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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.

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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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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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde