“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Lord Goring, Act III.
Variant: The only possible society is oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Critic as Artist
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Variant: Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl… I have ever met since… I met you.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet