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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Everything is going to be fine in the end.
If it's not fine it's not the end.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”
Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. V, st. 14
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
Disputed
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist