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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Who, being loved, is poor?»
«Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Life,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
every, experience, gives, in name, in name only, mistakes, mistaking, mistook, name, naming, same name, that name, their, The name, the same name
«A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Gentlemen,
Insults,
Intention
| Keywords:
feelings, gentleman, hurts, The Gentlemen, unintentionally
«Everything popular is wrong.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
Everything, More popular than, popular, popular with, wrong, wronging
«Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.»
«Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Individuality,
Reality,
Society
| Keywords:
are, concept, exists, Get Real, individuals, In the, mental, only, Other Worlds, Out of This World, real, Real Me, real world, society, take over the world, their world, there, There are, There exist, The Other World, The Real World, the world to come, world
«Only the shallow know themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
know, only, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows, themselves
«What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.»
«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
afraid, are, away, do away with, many, might, not, others, pick, picking up, pick at, pick out, pick over, that, Them, there, There are, things, throw, throwing away, thrown-away, throw away, throw in, throw out, throw up, were, would
«Why was I born with such contemporaries?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Despair,
Self Importance
| Keywords:
Born, contemporaries, such, The Contemporary, Was, why
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