Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Verified author @O_L1RU1, member from March 5, 2023“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mr. Dumby, Act III. <br class="br">Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880) <br class="br">Variant: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. <br class="br">Variant: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. <br class="br">Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray <br class="br">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. ]
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“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
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.
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“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
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet