June 30th, 2018 | Updated on June 30th, 2022
1. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.-Oscar Wilde
2. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.-Oscar Wilde
3. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.-Oscar Wilde
4. I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.-Oscar Wilde
5. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Oscar Wilde
6. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.-Oscar Wilde
7. 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
8. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.-Oscar Wilde
9. The truth is rarely pure and never simple.-Oscar Wilde
10. 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
11.You can never be overdressed or overeducated.-Oscar Wilde
12. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.-Oscar Wilde
13. Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.-Oscar Wilde
14. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.-Oscar Wilde
15. A good friend will always stab you in the front.-Oscar Wilde
16. I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.-Oscar Wilde
17. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.-Oscar Wilde
18. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.-Oscar Wilde
19. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.-Oscar Wilde
20. I am not young enough to know everything.-Oscar Wilde
21. The heart was made to be broken.-Oscar Wilde
23. 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.-Oscar Wilde
24. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.-Oscar Wilde
25. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.-Oscar Wilde
26. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.-Oscar Wilde
27. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.-Oscar Wilde
28. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.-Oscar Wilde
29. 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.-Oscar Wilde
30. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.-Oscar Wilde
31. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.-Oscar Wilde
32. 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.-Oscar Wilde
33. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.-Oscar Wilde
34. With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?-Oscar Wilde
35. 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
36. I can resist anything except temptation.-Oscar Wilde
37. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde
38. To define is to limit.-Oscar Wilde
39. 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
40. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.-Oscar Wilde
41. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde
42. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.-Oscar Wilde
43. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.-Oscar Wilde
44. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.-Oscar Wilde
45. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.-Oscar Wilde
46. Who, being loved, is poor?-Oscar Wilde
47. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.-Oscar Wilde
48. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.-Oscar Wilde
49. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.-Oscar Wilde
50. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.-Oscar Wilde
51. I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.-Oscar Wilde
52. I have nothing to declare except my genius.-Oscar Wilde
53. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.-Oscar Wilde
54. A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.-Oscar Wilde
55. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.-Oscar Wilde
56. 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
57. No good deed goes unpunished.-Oscar Wilde
58. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.-Oscar Wilde
59. We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.-Oscar Wilde
60. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.-Oscar Wilde
61. 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
62. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.-Oscar Wilde
63. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.-Oscar Wilde
64. “The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.”-Oscar Wilde
65. “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
