Famous Quotes And Sayings By Oscar Wilde
Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught
The public is wonderfully tolerant. Forgive everything except genius.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it
It’s what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you’ll be when you can’t help it
The truth is seldom pure and never simple
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are other people’s opinions, their lives a mime, their passions a quote
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
Yes: I am a dreamer. Because a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is her clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct for things.
When a man has loved a woman once, he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
There is always something ridiculous in the emotions of people he has stopped loving.
Any place you love is the world to you.
Deceiving others. That’s what the world calls a romance.
The heart was made to be broken.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
True love suffers and is silent. I remember myself once, but now it doesn’t matter. Romance is a thing of the past.
Things that one feels absolutely sure of are never true. That is the fatality of faith and the lesson of romance.
There is no such thing as romance these days, women have become too bright; Nothing spoils a romance like a woman’s sense of humor.
It takes a lot of courage to see the world in all its polluted splendor, and still love it.
The worst thing about having an affair of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
It! With a wand I touched the honey of romance. And must I lose the inheritance of a soul?
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Somehow, he had never loved a woman. I guess I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really great passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country.
Life is too important a thing to be serious about.
We live in a time when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
The truth is seldom pure and never simple.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost. Always be in search of new sensations. Don’t be afraid of anything!
There are only two types of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Yes, I am a dreamer. Because a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Selfishness is not living as one wants to live, it is asking others to live as one wants to live.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the original sin of the world. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Anyone can sympathize with a friend’s sufferings, but it takes a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them and master them.
Man is less himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
Each of us is our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
He always forgives your enemies; nothing bothers them so much.
Experience is simply the name men gave to their mistakes.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others every time they go.
I can resist anything except temptation.
I’m not young enough to know everything.
He must have a truly romantic nature, because he cries when there is nothing to cry about.
I’m so smart that sometimes I don’t understand a single word I say.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. Forgive everything except genius.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. Never use on yourself.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally don’t like.
All women become like their mothers. That is his tragedy. No man does, and that is yours.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you.
To regain my youth, I would do anything in the world except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make a fool of yourself.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I’m old I know it is.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
Only boring people are great at breakfast.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The heart was 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
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth
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
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Quotation By Oscar Wilde
It takes a lot of courage to see the world in all its polluted splendor, and still love it.
Women have a much better time than men in this world; There are many more things forbidden to them.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and simple is right.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
They promised that dreams can come true, but they forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too.
I like people better than principles, and I like unprincipled people better than anything else in the world.
Life is too short to learn German.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul there are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
In the old days, books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and nobody reads them.
Popularity is the only insult I have never suffered.
I have nothing against anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t have it in the street and scare the horses.
Quotation is a useful substitute for wit.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Life is too important a thing to be serious about.
Keep love in your heart. A life without her is like a garden without sun when the flowers are dead. The awareness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. Forgive everything except genius.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal is absolutely fatal.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they get older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing bothers them so much.
Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are the opinions of others, their lives a mime, their passions a date.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer the others.
People who count their chickens before they hatch act very wisely because the chickens run so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it.
Evil is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
How else but through a broken heart can the Lord Christ enter?
Ultimately, the bond of all company, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common ground, and between two people of very different cultures, the only possible common ground is the level lower.
One must always be in love. That is the reason why one should never get married.
I never leave for tomorrow what I can do, the day after tomorrow.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
He has no enemies, but his friends hate him intensely.
Oscar Wilde Love Quotes
Hearts are made to be broken.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Be yourself; everyone else is already busy.
The passion for pleasure is the secret to staying young.
Appearance blinds, while words reveal.
If you want to be a doormat, you have to lie down first.
Sorry, I didn’t recognize you, I’ve changed a lot.
After a good dinner you can forgive anyone, even your own relatives.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost. Always be in search of new sensations. Don’t be afraid of anything.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the original sin of the world. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
If you don’t delay, I’ll wait for you all my life.
I’m sick of intelligence. Everyone is smart nowadays.
Friendship is much more tragic than love. Last longer.
There is no possible friendship between men and women. There is passion, enmity, adoration, love, but no friendship.
I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
When a woman remarries, it is because she hated her first husband. When a man remarries, it is because he adored his first wife. The women try their luck; men risk theirs.
To regain my youth, I would do anything in the world except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The good ones ended happily and the bad ones unhappily. That’s what Fiction means.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who couldn’t be perfectly happy?
They get up early because they have so much to do and go to bed early because they have so little to think about.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally don’t like.
I’m so smart that sometimes I don’t understand a single word I say.
When you are in love, you always start by fooling yourself and you always end by fooling others. That’s what the world calls a romance.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without giving you company.
Losing one of the parents, Mr. Worthing, can be considered a misfortune; losing both seems careless
One should never trust a woman who tells you her true age. A woman who would tell you that she would tell you anything.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Every portrait painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Nowadays, most people die of a kind of creeping common sense and find out too late that the only things they never regret are the mistakes they’ve made.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Each of us is our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The world is a stage and the play is misplayed.
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel like I must be wrong.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are the opinions of others, their lives a mime, their passions a date.
There are only two types of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is her clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct for these things. What (women) like is to be the last romance of a man.
I choose my friends for his good looks, my acquaintances for his good character and my enemies for his good intellect.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make a fool of yourself.
Yes: I am a dreamer. Because a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Best Oscar Wilde Quotes
Man is less himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The truth is seldom pure and never simple.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
I am too fond of reading books to care about writing them.
Today people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The face of a man is his autobiography. The face of a woman is his work of fiction.
You will always love me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
In fact, I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
Nothing can heal the soul but the senses, just as nothing can heal the senses but the soul.
Some things are more valuable because they don’t last very long.
As paradoxical as it may seem, it is still true that life imitates art much more than art imitates life.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what he wants, and the other is getting it.
Laughter is by no means a bad start to a friendship, and it is by far the best ending to one.
The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
I always give good advice. It’s the only thing you can do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it’s a good thing for most of us that it isn’t.
Music makes you feel so romantic, at least it always gets on your nerves, which is the same today.
The only charm of the past is that it is the past.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without giving you company.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world.
All women become like their mothers. That is the tragedy of it. No man does, and that’s yours.
Always forgive your enemies, nothing bothers them so much
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Anyone can sympathize with a friend’s sufferings, but a very fine nature is required to sympathize with a friend’s success
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught
Everything in moderation, including moderation
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make a fool of yourself.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you.”
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are charming or boring.
It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating
It’s what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you’ll be when you can’t help it.
It takes a lot of courage to see the world in all its polluted splendor, and still love it
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Don’t lose anything. Always be in search of new sensations. Don’t be afraid of anything.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Don’t lose anything. Always be in search of new sensations. Don’t be afraid of anything.
Memory… is the diary that we all carry with us.”
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally don’t like
Famous Quotes From Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without her is like a garden without sun when the flowers are dead.
It is through art, and only through art, that we can realize our perfection.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Be yourself; everyone else is already busy.
Memory… is the diary that we all carry with us.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are charming or boring.
Always forgive your enemies, nothing bothers them so much.
Laughter is by no means a bad start to a friendship, and it is by far the best ending to one.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Our ambition must be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is knowing more, being more, and doing more.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are the opinions of others, their lives a mime, their passions a date.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it
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.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long
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
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde Quotes About Beauty
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
One should always be in love. That is the reason why one should never get married.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he doesn’t love her.
When a man has loved a woman once, he will do anything for her except continue to love her
Hate is blind, as well as love
Women love us for our flaws. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects
I see when men love women. They give them only a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything
Those whom the love of God makes young
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people you have stopped loving.
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to intensely admire and love a young person. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
The true essence of romance is uncertainty.
There is no possible friendship between men and women. There is passion, enmity, adoration, love, but no friendship
It takes a lot of courage to see the world in all its polluted splendor, and still love it.”
I love acting. It is much more real than life.
They ruin every romance trying to make it last forever.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s something no married man knows anything about
Anyone can sympathize with a friend’s sufferings, but a very fine nature is required to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; royal riches cannot. In your soul there are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its savage passion for self-harm, its cutting with knives and its scourging with rods: medievalism is the real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside of it should be a matter of no importance.
In the treasure house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, which cannot be taken from you
The mystery of this world is in the visible, not in the invisible
Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The awareness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can.”
Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
Death must be so beautiful. Lie down on the soft brown earth, grass waving overhead, and listen to the silence. Have no yesterday, no tomorrow. To forget time, to spare life, to be at peace.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is
The only thing one really knows about human nature is that it changes
Selfishness is not living as one wants to live, it is asking others to live as one wants to live.
It is one thing, depending on the way you look at it
Experience, the name that men give to their mistakes.
Life is too important a thing to talk seriously about it.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world
The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what he wants, and the other is getting it.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train
The truth is seldom pure and never simple
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is theirs.
The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That’s what Fiction means
I hope you haven’t been leading a double life, pretending to be evil and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
If I’m a little overdressed from time to time, I make up for it by always being immensely over-polite.
I hate people who don’t take food seriously. It’s so shallow of him.
In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity, is vital
I’m sick of intelligence. Everyone is smart nowadays.
Never speak disrespectfully of the Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t participate do
Being natural is a very difficult pose to maintain
Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
– Oscar Wilde
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
– Oscar Wilde
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
– Oscar Wilde
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
– Oscar Wilde
“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
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”
– Oscar Wilde
To define is to limit.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
– Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
– Oscar Wilde
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
– Oscar Wilde
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