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Oscar Wilde Funny Quotes

What did Oscar Wilde have to say about funny? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Here are 15 of the best Oscar Wilde funny quotes, drawn from our full Oscar Wilde collection.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

— Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

— Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

— Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

— Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

— Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

— Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

— Oscar Wilde

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