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“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”

Oscar Wilde

Letter from Paris (May 1900)

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act III
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”

Oscar Wilde book Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Variant: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
Context: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

“I never change, except in my affections.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

Oscar Wilde

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”

Oscar Wilde

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things… I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

Oscar Wilde

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Cecil Graham, Act III
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

Oscar Wilde

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

Oscar Wilde

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

Oscar Wilde