Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 1854 to 1900. In the early 1890s he was one of the most popular playwrights in London.

This is a collection of quotes by Oscar Wilde.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
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All art is quite useless.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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The trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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