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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Quotes
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Famous Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Quotations
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day
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- 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 Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- The basis for optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- When good Americans die they go to Paris. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
- Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything and when they grow older, they know it. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde »
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