80 Famous quotes and sayings by Oscar Wilde. Here are the best quotes by Oscar Wilde that will surely inspire you. Oscar Wilde finished his education at Trinity College in Dublin, and Magdalen College in Oxford. After he graduated, he moved to London to pursue a literary career. Being an Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde became one of London's famous and successful playwrights after he wrote in different forms throughout the 1880s. May these Oscar Wilde quotes help you acquire knowledge and motivation that can be useful in your everyday life. Share these inspirational Oscar Wilde quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde
3. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde
4. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. - Oscar Wilde
5. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. - Oscar Wilde
6. The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. - Oscar Wilde
7. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde
8. There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. - Oscar Wilde
9. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde
10. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde
11. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde
12. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde
13. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
14. Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde
15. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But. it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde
16. To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde
17. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. - Oscar Wilde
18. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
19. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde
20. A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde
21. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. - Oscar Wilde
22. We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde
23. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
24. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde
25. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde
26. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. - Oscar Wilde
27. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
28. The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. - Oscar Wilde
29. The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde
30. 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. - Oscar Wilde
31. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they’ll kill you. - Oscar Wilde
32. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
33. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
34. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
35. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
36. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde
37. You can never be overdressed or over-educated. - Oscar Wilde
38. I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. - Oscar Wilde
39. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde
40. A good friend will always stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde
41. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
42. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
43. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde
44. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
45. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
46. It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde
47. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde
48. I can resist anything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde
49. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde
50. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. - Oscar Wilde
51. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
52. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde
53. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde
54. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. - Oscar Wilde
55. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde
56. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde
57. No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde
58. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. - Oscar Wilde
59. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
60. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde
61. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde
62. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. - Oscar Wilde
63. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. - Oscar Wilde
64. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. - Oscar Wilde
65. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde
66. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde
67. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde
68. It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. - Oscar Wilde
69. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
70. A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. - Oscar Wilde
71. They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. - Oscar Wilde
72. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. - Oscar Wilde
73. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
74. Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. - Oscar Wilde
75. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
76. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde
77. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after. - Oscar Wilde
78. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. - Oscar Wilde
79. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde
80. There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. - Oscar Wilde
1. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde
3. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde
4. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. - Oscar Wilde
5. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. - Oscar Wilde
6. The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. - Oscar Wilde
7. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde
8. There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. - Oscar Wilde
9. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde
10. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde
11. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde
12. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde
13. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
14. Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde
15. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But. it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde
16. To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde
17. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. - Oscar Wilde
18. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
19. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde
20. A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde
21. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. - Oscar Wilde
22. We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde
23. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
24. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde
25. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde
26. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. - Oscar Wilde
27. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
28. The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. - Oscar Wilde
29. The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. - Oscar Wilde
30. 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. - Oscar Wilde
31. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they’ll kill you. - Oscar Wilde
32. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
33. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
34. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde
35. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
36. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde
37. You can never be overdressed or over-educated. - Oscar Wilde
38. I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. - Oscar Wilde
39. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde
40. A good friend will always stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde
41. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
42. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
43. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde
44. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
45. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
46. It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde
47. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. - Oscar Wilde
48. I can resist anything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde
49. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde
50. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. - Oscar Wilde
51. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
52. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. - Oscar Wilde
53. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde
54. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. - Oscar Wilde
55. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde
56. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde
57. No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde
58. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. - Oscar Wilde
59. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
60. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde
61. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde
62. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. - Oscar Wilde
63. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. - Oscar Wilde
64. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. - Oscar Wilde
65. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde
66. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde
67. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde
68. It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. - Oscar Wilde
69. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
70. A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. - Oscar Wilde
71. They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. - Oscar Wilde
72. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. - Oscar Wilde
73. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
74. Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. - Oscar Wilde
75. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
76. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde
77. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after. - Oscar Wilde
78. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. - Oscar Wilde
79. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde
80. There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. - Oscar Wilde
80 Famous quotes and sayings by Oscar Wilde
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