Oscar Wilde Quotations:

Famous Words in his Unique Voice

Oscar Wilde quotations that are thought-provoking, witty, as well as inspirational.

Oscar Wilde

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

True Friends- Oscar Wilde

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Always! That is the dreadful word...it is a meaningless word, too.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Life- Oscar Wilde

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