Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

Irish - Dramatist October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 Read full biography

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Future Past Only Difference

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Courage Me You Always

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Children Time Forgiveness Parents

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Good Advice Never Good Advice Only

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

World True Mystery Invisible

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Age Believe Know Young

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love Beginning To Love Romance

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Ignorance Community Journalism Giving

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Love Marriage Always Never

There is no sin except stupidity.

Stupidity Sin Except

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Beauty Beautiful Time Joy

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life Important Seriously Talk

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Life Only Other Two

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Beautiful Aesthetic Lips Help

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Beauty She Everything Peacock

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Life Art Mirrors Spectator

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing Than Calmness Aggravating

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Man Past Rich Enough Back

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Optimism Terror Sheer Basis

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Man Truth You Person

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Work Beauty Art Ethics

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Woman Relationship Man Be Happy

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Book Moral Well Books

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Thoughts People Someone Opinions

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Friendship Man Friends Enemies Like

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