Oscar Wilde Quotes

Hello and welcome to my Oscar Wilde quotes page. A man to be admired for his courage in a time of high ignorance. Hope you enjoy these quotes.

Irish playwright novelist, poet and author
1854-1900

• Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
• Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
• Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
• To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything
• I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
• Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
• A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
• Genius lasts longer than beauty.
• There is no sin except stupidity.
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for passing through my Oscar quotes. He was a controversial figure in his time but he stood up for who he was and it’s to be admired. Till next time.

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