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“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“One world was not enough for two like me and you.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Time is a waste of money.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet