Oscar Wilde Quotes (Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He 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.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
1. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
― Oscar Wilde
2. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
― Oscar Wilde
3. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
― Oscar Wilde
4. At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
― Oscar Wilde
5. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
― Oscar Wilde
6. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
― Oscar Wilde
7. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
― Oscar Wilde
8. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
― Oscar Wilde
9. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
― Oscar Wilde
10. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
― Oscar Wilde
11. It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
― Oscar Wilde
12. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
― Oscar Wilde
13. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
― Oscar Wilde
14. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
― Oscar Wilde
15. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
― Oscar Wilde
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