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Dramatist Oscar Wilde was born on 16th October 1845 AD. An Irish citizen, Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland. He was also called Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was 55 years old when he died on 30th November 1900 AD. In his life Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was famous not only for his work but also for quotations and sayings, some of which are quite popular and listed here.

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.	Tweet
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.	Tweet
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.	Tweet
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.	Tweet
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.	Tweet
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.	Tweet
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.	Tweet
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.	Tweet
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.	Tweet
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.	Tweet
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.	Tweet
I can resist everything except temptation.	Tweet
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.	Tweet
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.	Tweet
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.	Tweet
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.	Tweet
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!	Tweet
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.	Tweet
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.	Tweet
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.	Tweet
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.	Tweet
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.	Tweet
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.	Tweet
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability	Tweet
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.	Tweet
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.	Tweet
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.	Tweet
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.	Tweet
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.	Tweet
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.	Tweet
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.	Tweet
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.	Tweet
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.	Tweet
Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it ever six months.	Tweet
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.	Tweet
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.	Tweet
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.	Tweet

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