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"True friends stab you in the front."
52+ Quotes by Oscar Wilde
A curated collection of 52 inspirational quotes by Oscar Wilde on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"All art is quite useless."
— Oscar Wilde
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
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"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result."
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"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
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"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
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"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
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"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."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."