Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde

More Oscar Wilde Quotes

Posted on April 8, 2016 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Requoted from Reader’s Digest, August 2013 issue, page 97. “Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.” “I can resist everything but temptation.” “What is a cynic? A … Continue reading →

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Be Yourself

Posted on December 19, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde, quoted from JM Lysun @ https://jmlysun.wordpress.com/home/  

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A Bore

Posted on September 29, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Oscar Wilde quoted from thatlitsite, found on ravenmorganleigh’s tumblr blog,09/29/2015

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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Posted on August 2, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

“I have nothing to declare but my brilliance.” Oscar Wilde, after being asked what did he have to declare by a N.Y. customs agent “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: what … Continue reading →

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Irish Quotes, Proverbs, Poems, Toasts, Etc.

Posted on July 30, 2015 by jeneanecommonplacebook

Irish Blessings May the road to rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your fields. The rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God … Continue reading →

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