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Oscar Wilde Quotations

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was a playwright, poet and author, probably remembered as much for his dry wit as his flamboyant life.

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."

"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards."

"I can resist anything except temptation."

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

"Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught."

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."

"I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts"

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