“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”-Oscar Wilde

8 – Individual Quote

“No good deed goes unpunished.”-Oscar Wilde

12 – Punishment Quote

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

3 – Sincerity Quote

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”-Oscar Wilde

14 – Knowledge Quote

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”-Oscar Wilde

11 – Ability Quote

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

15 – Regret Quote

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”-Oscar Wilde

9 – Children Quote

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”-Oscar Wilde

4 – Enemies Quote

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”-Oscar Wilde

16 – Truth Quote

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”-Oscar Wilde

19 – Dreamer Quote

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”-Oscar Wilde

6 – Truth Quote

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”-Oscar Wilde

17 – Life Quote

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”-Oscar Wilde

13 – Hearts Quote

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”-Oscar Wilde

10 – Like Quote

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”-Oscar Wilde

7 – Tragedy Quote

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”-Oscar Wilde

1 – Cynic Quote

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He also wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

20 Entertaining Thoughts from Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

2 – Friend Quote

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”-Oscar Wilde

5 – Faces Quote

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”-Oscar Wilde

18 – Acceptance Quote

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”-Oscar Wilde

16 – Truth Quote

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