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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Oscar Wilde
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Oscar Wilde
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go
Oscar Wilde
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Oscar Wilde
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Oscar Wilde
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
Oscar Wilde
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
Oscar Wilde
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
