{"id":419,"date":"2016-03-03T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:08:37","slug":"oscar-wilde-quotations-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/oscar-wilde-quotations-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Wilde Quotations (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oscar Wilde Quotes and Thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is <\/span>the thief of time.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on <\/span>treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far <\/span>more expensive.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is <\/span>never of any use to oneself.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not young enough to know everything.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I can resist everything except temptation.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no sin except stupidity.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Those whom the gods love grow young.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is too important to be taken seriously.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I like talking to a brick wall, it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Biography lends to death a new terror.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Charity creates a multitude of sins.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Oscar Wilde Quotations\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Part 1)<\/a> ; \u00a0 (Part 3)<\/a> ; \u00a0 (Part 4)<\/a> ;<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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