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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.»
«Illusion is the first of all pleasures.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Illusion,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
first of all, illusion, pleasures
«A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.»
«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»
«Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Excitement,
Routine
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, calmness, nothing, nothings, out of nothing, Than
«The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-development,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
at the best, bred, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, had best, other, Other People, people, peopled, themselves, The WELL, well-bred, well, welled, wise, wised, wise up
«Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.»
«Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.»
«The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.»
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Night,
Romantic,
Vision
| Keywords:
All for One, All in one, before, can, dawn, dawned, dreamer, find, for each one, His, moonlight, one, one after another, One and one, One on One, one to one, One World, only, other ways, Other Worlds, Out of This World, punishment, rest, Rest of the world, sees, See Saw, take over the world, that, their world, The Dreamers, The One and Only, The Other World, the world, the world to come, way, WHO, world
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