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“I can resist everything except temptation.”

Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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“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 (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”

Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Variant: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Variant: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]

Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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“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 (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variant: 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.
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

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Oscar Wilde photo

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

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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Oscar Wilde quote: “Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
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“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

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

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“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

Source: A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde quote: “Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”
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“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”

Source: An Ideal Husband

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