Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Life, Heart

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship, True, Friends

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness, Nothing, Forgive

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.
Oscar Wilde

Dreams, Find, Before

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.
Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Happy, Woman

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Happiness, Others, Cause

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

Time, Judge, Children

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Future, Past, Sinner

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

Single, Saying, Understand

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Experience, Mistakes, Give

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education, Time, Nothing

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Friendship, Women

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Made, Loved

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, Life, Important

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Temptation, Rid

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

Truth, Person, Him

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Stars, Looking, Gutter

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Men, Love, Women

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Intelligence, Good, Friends

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

Marriage, Love, Reason

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde

Feelings, Hurts, Anyone

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Happy, Long

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Beautiful, Ugly

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Worse, Talked

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.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Greatest, Human

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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