My Pick: Top 10 Oscar Wilde Quotes
Every time I read any of Oscar Wilde's works, I feel like I get a fresh taste of life. Oscar Wilde's writing is always witty, full of daring adventures , and always manages to help me escape my horrid writer's block. I admire his work, but I admire him more because of the person Wilde lived to be. Wilde never lacked wit, and never took life seriously. He was brave in his writing, lyrically writing scandalous texts that eventually led him into prison. He wrote the feelings and the thoughts people of that time were to ashamed to say. Wilde enjoyed satirically berating higher society, and often criticized the men and women for their lack of intelligence. I have always wanted to live like Wilde, I want to be witty, satirical, daring, and unashamed. So here is, my top 10 favorite quotes by Oscar Wilde:
1.) "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
2.) "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
3.) "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."
4.) "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." -My all time favorite book by Wilde, An Ideal Husband.
5.) "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
6.) "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
7.) "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
8.) "When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
9.) "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
10.) "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
