Oscar Wilde quotes.

All 42 quotations by Oscar Wilde in our collection.

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ”
— Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
— Oscar Wilde
“An excellent man; he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ”
— Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ”
— Oscar Wilde
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Education is what survives when all is lost.”
— Oscar Wilde
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
— Oscar Wilde
“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
— Oscar Wilde
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
— Oscar Wilde
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
— Oscar Wilde
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
— Oscar Wilde
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The final mystery is oneself.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
— Oscar Wilde
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
— Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ”
— Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
— Oscar Wilde
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
— Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ”
— Oscar Wilde

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