Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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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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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde