Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Motivation & Inspiration 11.3
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Truth & Honesty 11.3
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Self & Identity 11.3
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
General 6.1
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 5.8
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
- Oscar Wilde
Books & Reading 2.0
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
- Oscar Wilde
Books & Reading 1.8
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 1.6
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
- Oscar Wilde
Success & Achievement 1.3
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
- Oscar Wilde
Science & Discovery 1.3
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship & Companionship 1.3
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
- Oscar Wilde
Love & Relationships 1.3
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 1.3
"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."
- Oscar Wilde
Love & Relationships 1.2
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry & Arts 1.2
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
- Oscar Wilde
Education & Learning 1.1
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
- Oscar Wilde
Hope & Optimism 1.1
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry & Arts 1.1
"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry & Arts 1.1
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
- Oscar Wilde
Truth & Honesty 0.9
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
- Oscar Wilde
Beauty & Aesthetics 0.9
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 0.9
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
- Oscar Wilde
General 0.9
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 0.9
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry & Arts 0.9
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
- Oscar Wilde
General 0.8
"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
Life & Living 0.8
"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."
- Oscar Wilde
Money & Wealth 0.8
"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."
- Oscar Wilde
General 0.8
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
- Oscar Wilde
Love & Relationships 0.8
"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."
- Oscar Wilde