Oscar Wilde Quotations Life and Death

 

When the gods wish to punish us
they answer our prayers

 

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

 

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

 

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

 

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

 

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

 

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

 

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

 

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

 

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

 

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

 

Everyone should keep someone else’s diary.

 

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

 

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

 

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

 

Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

 

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

 
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

 

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

 

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

 

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.

 

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