“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variant: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
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.”
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)
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