Oscar Wilde Quotes Page 2
Best 53 Quotes by Oscar Wilde – Page 2 of 2
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
An Ideal Husband Quotes
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
Lady Windermere's Fan Quotes
“I can resist anything but temptation.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Quotes
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“To define is to limit.”
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