Here are some nice quotes and sayings by Oscar Wilde!
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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