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Quotes by

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. – Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none. – Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. – Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. – Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. – Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. – Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. – Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

When good Americans die they go to Paris. – Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde