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“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The great events of the world take place in the brain…”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet