“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: How you place the blame
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.”
~ Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Immoral books
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
– Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Success
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Always forgive your enemies
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Comma
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
~ Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: True gentleman
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.” – Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Women, not perfectly normal
“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?”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Heart
“The heart was meant to be broken.”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Good advice
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde, Writer.
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Oscar Wilde: Personality
“Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection.”
—Oscar Wilde,The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
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Oscar Wilde: Cricket
“Cricket requires one to assume such indecent postures.”
~Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Oscar Wilde: Everything
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde,writer.Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Oscar Wilde: The incredible and the improbable
“The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ”
—Oscar Wilde.Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Oscar Wilde: Money
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Oscar Wilde: Men and women
“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
~Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Indiscreet answers
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”
~Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Popularity
“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
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Oscar Wilde: Reading
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ”
English: Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Oscar Wilde: Do not ask
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. –Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
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Oscar Wilde: Hatred and love
“Hatred is blind, as well as love. ”
English: Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Oscar Wilde: Friends, acquaintances and enemies
Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Reproduce that experience
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
—Oscar Wilde
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Masking the truth
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
—Oscar Wilde
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Genius and talent
Oscar Wilde painted portrait _DDC0280 (Photo credit: Abode of Chaos)
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
—Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde: Ideas
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
—Oscar Wilde
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Mistakes
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde: Young enough
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Wilde: Bad poetry
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
—Oscar Wilde
