All Oscar Wilde Quotes
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde in
Art
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde in
Experience
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde in
Art
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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