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Monday, May 13, 2013

Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Who, being loved, is poor?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.