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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
— Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Collection
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Alone, Relationships Ending
“The heart was made to be broken.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Tagged: Loving Deeply
“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: tragic, beauty, Life
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Philosophy, Life, Perspective, Morality
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: immoral, Books, Reading
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Tagged: Courage, glory, Love, Appreciation, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray [PICT OF DORIAN GRAY]
Tagged: Secret, Relationships, Life Quotes, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Mind Over Matter, Triumph, Sex Quotes, Relationships
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Children, Growing Up, forgiveness
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Tagged: Wants And Needs, Dreams, Goals, Life Quotes
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Insecurity, Relationships, Self Worth, Personality
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: publicity, The World, Gossip
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: clever, Woman, Weakness, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: noble, Brave, Oscar Wilde Quotes, Stupid
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Escape, Own Worst Enemy, Leaving, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Tagged: clever, Intelligence, Communication
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Double Life, pretending, Fake People
“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Reget, Loss And Love, Relationships, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Everything in moderation, including moderation”
— Oscar Wilde, wisdom
Tagged: oscar wilde, Wisdom
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Appreciate, Forever, Relationships Ending
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Mistakes, Experience, Failure
“Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Always, Forever, Oscar Wilde Quotes, Relationships
“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: first lines of books, Summertime
“When you really want love you will
find it waiting for you.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Waiting, Searching, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
— Oscar Wilde, 50 Best Quotes About Love
Tagged: Love, True Love, romance, Ordinary, Extraordinary
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
— Oscar Wilde, Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History
Tagged: Drinking, Work, Career
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Pick Up Lines, Pick Up Lines For Girls To Use On Guys, Temptation
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
— Oscar Wilde, Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Tagged: Sex, Power
“As he had already lost his maidenhood long ago, my rod entered far more easily in him than his had done in me, nor did I give him the pain that I had felt, although my tool is of no mean size. He stretched his hole open, the tip entered, he moved a little, half the phallus was plunged in; he pressed down, lifted himself up, then came down again; after one or two strokes the whole turgid column was lodged within his body. When he was well impaled he put his arms around my neck, and hugged and kissed me.”
— Oscar Wilde, Teleny Or The Reverse of the Medal
Tagged: Sex, Kissing
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Tagged: Selfish, goodbye, different, Conforming, Oscar Wilde Quotes
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