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523 Famous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Also Known As:  
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde     Fingal O'Flahertie Wills     Oscar. Wilde
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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.

Dreams Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Enemies Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.

Funny Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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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.

Happiness Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Hope Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Knowledge Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Learning Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Men Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately

People Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Politics Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Science Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Understanding Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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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.

Advice Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Age Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Bachelors Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Death Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

Devil Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Emotion Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Fashion Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

First love Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

First love Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love

Friendship Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

History Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Life Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Loyalty Quotes, by Oscar Wilde

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