Quotes by Oscar Wilde

About Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
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JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I shou...

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice, it is the only thing to do with it.It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Imagino que um homem que um dia amou uma mulher fará qualquer coisa por ela exceto deixar de continuar a amá-la.

Oscar Wilde

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is ones...

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The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

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You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the...

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays. MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blu...

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I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is th...

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There is nothing like race, is there?

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VICOMTE DE NANJAC. And you are younger and more C beautiful than ever. How do you manage it? MRS. CHEVELEY. By making it a rule only to talk to per- Y fectly charming people like yourself.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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Author Bio

  • NameOscar Wilde
  • DescriptionIrish writer and poet
  • AliasesOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • BornOctober 16, 1854
  • DiedNovember 30, 1900
  • CountryUnited Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
  • ProfessionPoet; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Novelist
  • WorksThe Importance Of Being Earnest; The Picture Of Dorian Gray