“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde · Wisdom quote

Writer · 1854 – 1900

Irish playwright, poet and author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, famed for his wit and epigrams.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.