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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

Oscar Wilde

Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

Oscar Wilde

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”

Oscar Wilde

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”

Oscar Wilde

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

Oscar Wilde

Voltaire, "L'illusion est le premier plaisir" from the satirical poem "La Pucelle d’Orléans" [The Maid of Orleans]. For a complete review see the misattributed quotation entry at Oscar Wilde in America http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/illusion-first-of-all-pleasures.html. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”

Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

Oscar Wilde

“Punctuality is the thief of time”

Oscar Wilde

Variant: Punctuality is the thief of time.

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”

Oscar Wilde

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

Oscar Wilde

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”