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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." 
 Oscar Wilde
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
 Oscar Wilde
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping." 
― Oscar Wilde
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his." 
― Oscar Wilde
"The heart was made to be broken." 
― Oscar Wilde
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
 Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
― Oscar Wilde
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after."
― Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
 Oscar Wilde
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
― Oscar Wilde
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
― Oscar Wilde
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes". 
― Oscar Wilde
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
 Oscar Wilde
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything."
 Oscar Wilde
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."
 Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
 Oscar Wilde
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." 
 Oscar Wilde
" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
 Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
― Oscar Wilde
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there." 
― Oscar Wilde
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
― Oscar Wilde
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
 Oscar Wilde
"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
― Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it."
― Oscar Wilde
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyones feelings intentionally." 
― Oscar Wilde
Nationality: Irish
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900 
Known For: Author, Playwright and Poet.