🥀 Oscar Wilde Drabble Prompt List 🥀
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
You will always be fond of me.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Hearts are made to be broken.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
To define is to limit.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I can resist anything except temptation.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Every woman is a rebel.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could
Only the shallow know themselves
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
I never change, except in my affections.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
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