Oscar Wilde quotes.
All 42 quotations by Oscar Wilde in our collection.
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
“An excellent man; he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ”
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“Education is what survives when all is lost.”
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
“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.”
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
“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.”
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“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.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“The final mystery is oneself.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ”
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ”
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