Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. He was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. As a dramatist, many of Wilde’s plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most famous play. Unconventional in his writing and life, Wilde’s affair with a young man led to his arrest on charges of “gross indecency” in 1895. He was imprisoned for two years and died in poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. May these Oscar Wilde Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde
2. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” Oscar Wilde
3. “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” Oscar Wilde
4. “Hatred is blind, as well as love.” Oscar Wilde
5. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” Oscar Wilde
6. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” Oscar Wilde
7. “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” Oscar Wilde
8. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde
9. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” Oscar Wilde
10. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” Oscar Wilde
11. “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Oscar Wilde
12. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.” Oscar Wilde
13. “True friends stab you in the front.” Oscar Wilde
14. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
15. “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde
16. “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. I can resist everything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde
17. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Oscar Wilde
18. “Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” Oscar Wilde
19. “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” Oscar Wilde
20. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” Oscar Wilde
21. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” Oscar Wilde
22. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde
23. “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” Oscar Wilde
24. “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” Oscar Wilde
25. “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.” Oscar Wilde
26. “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” Oscar Wilde
27. “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Oscar Wilde
28. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Oscar Wilde
29. “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde
30. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde
31. “One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.” Oscar Wilde
32. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” Oscar Wilde
33. “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.” Oscar Wilde
34. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” Oscar Wilde
35. “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde
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