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“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Mr. Dumby, Act III
Variant: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Variant: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
" The Remarkable Rocket http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/179/".
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
Variant: Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
Gwendolen, Act III.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Variant: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
Variant: I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Illingworth, Act III.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Variant: Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is too important to take seriously.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lord Darlington, Act I
“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
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