Looking for inspiration and enlightenment? Look no further than “The Ultimate Compilation: 157 Oscar Wilde Quotes to Inspire and Enlighten.” Explore the brilliance of Oscar Wilde through this comprehensive collection of thought-provoking quotes. From wit and wisdom to profound insights, these quotes will captivate and motivate you. Immerse yourself in the timeless words of one of history’s greatest literary figures.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
1- “The moon in her chariot of pearl.” -Oscar Wilde
2- “Who, being loved, is poor?” -Oscar Wilde
3- “A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. -Oscar Wilde
4- “A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.” -Oscar Wilde
5- “The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.” -Oscar Wilde
6- “I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.” -Oscar Wilde
7- “A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.” -Oscar Wilde
8- “The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.” -Oscar Wilde
9- “All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.” -Oscar Wilde
10- “Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.” -Oscar Wilde
11- “When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.” -Oscar Wilde
12- “The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.” -Oscar Wilde
13- “I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” -Oscar Wilde
14- “The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.” -Oscar Wilde
15- “It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.” -Oscar Wilde
16- “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
17- “Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” -Oscar Wilde
18- “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.” -Oscar Wilde
19- “I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.” -Oscar Wilde
20- “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” -Oscar Wilde
21- “Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.” -Oscar Wilde
22- “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” -Oscar Wilde
23- “Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.” -Oscar Wilde
24- “Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.” -Oscar Wilde
25- “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” -Oscar Wilde
26- “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.” -Oscar Wilde
27- “The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” -Oscar Wilde
28- “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” -Oscar Wilde
29- “The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.” -Oscar Wilde
30- “One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.” -Oscar Wilde
31- “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” -Oscar Wilde
32- “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” -Oscar Wilde
33- “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” -Oscar Wilde
34- “Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.” -Oscar Wilde
35- “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” -Oscar Wilde
36- “To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.” -Oscar Wilde
37- “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” -Oscar Wilde
38- “The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.” -Oscar Wilde
39- “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” -Oscar Wilde
40- “What fire does not destroy, it hardens.” -Oscar Wilde
41- “Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.” -Oscar Wilde
42- “A mask tells us more than a face.” -Oscar Wilde
43- “The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.” -Oscar Wilde
44- “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” -Oscar Wilde
45- “The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.” -Oscar Wilde
46- “The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.” -Oscar Wilde
47- “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.” -Oscar Wilde
48- “Everything that is popular is wrong.” -Oscar Wilde
49- “The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” -Oscar Wilde
50- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” -Oscar Wilde
51- “Where there is no love there is no understanding.” -Oscar Wilde
52- “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” -Oscar Wilde
53- “We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
54- “Hatred is blind, as well as love.” -Oscar Wilde
55- “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” -Oscar Wilde
56- “Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.” -Oscar Wilde
57- “There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven’t met Oscar Wilde yet.” -Oscar Wilde
58- “I don’t want to earn my living, I want to live.” -Oscar Wilde
59- “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
60- “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” -Oscar Wilde
61- “Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.” -Oscar Wilde
62- “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.” -Oscar Wilde
63- “We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
64- “Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
65- “Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” -Oscar Wilde
66- “To define is to limit.” -Oscar Wilde
67- “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.” -Oscar Wilde
68- “Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.” -Oscar Wilde
69- “The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.” -Oscar Wilde
70- “Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.” -Oscar Wilde
71- “Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.” -Oscar Wilde
72- “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” -Oscar Wilde
73- “Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.” -Oscar Wilde
74- “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Oscar Wilde
75- “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” -Oscar Wilde
76- “Be moderate in all things, including moderation.” -Oscar Wilde
77- “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.” -Oscar Wilde
78- “To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.” -Oscar Wilde
79- “Good taste is the excuse I’ve always given for leading such a bad life.” -Oscar Wilde
80- “Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.” -Oscar Wilde
81- “Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.” -Oscar Wilde
82- “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” -Oscar Wilde
83- “Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.” -Oscar Wilde
84- “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” -Oscar Wilde
85- “How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.” -Oscar Wilde
86- “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” -Oscar Wilde
87- “Credit is a young man’s capital.” -Oscar Wilde
88- “Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.” -Oscar Wilde
89- “The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.” -Oscar Wilde
90- “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.” -Oscar Wilde
91- “Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.” -Oscar Wilde
92- “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.” -Oscar Wilde
93- “The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.” -Oscar Wilde
94- “The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.” -Oscar Wilde
95- “Genius lasts longer than beauty.” -Oscar Wilde
96- “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” -Oscar Wilde
97- “The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.” -Oscar Wilde
98- “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde
99- “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” -Oscar Wilde
100- “Women are made to be loved, not understood.” -Oscar Wilde
101- “Every woman is a rebel.” -Oscar Wilde
102- “Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.” -Oscar Wilde
103- “A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.” -Oscar Wilde
104- “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.” -Oscar Wilde
105- “Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.” -Oscar Wilde
106- “True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.” -Oscar Wilde
107- “It is awfully hard work doing nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
108- “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” -Oscar Wilde
109- “I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.” -Oscar Wilde
110- “A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.” -Oscar Wilde
111- “I don’t want to earn a living. I want to live.” -Oscar Wilde
112- “I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.” -Oscar Wilde
113- “Only good questions deserve good answers.” -Oscar Wilde
114- “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” -Oscar Wilde
115- “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” -Oscar Wilde
116- “When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.” -Oscar Wilde
117- “Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.” -Oscar Wilde
118- “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” -Oscar Wilde
119- “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” -Oscar Wilde
120- “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” -Oscar Wilde
121- “Time is a waste of money.” -Oscar Wilde
122- “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.” -Oscar Wilde
123- “Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.” -Oscar Wilde
124- “I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.” -Oscar Wilde
125- “It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.” -Oscar Wilde
126- “Live the wonderful life that is in you.” -Oscar Wilde
127- “I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to.” -Oscar Wilde
128- “A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.” -Oscar Wilde
129- “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.” -Oscar Wilde
130- “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” -Oscar Wilde
131- “You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.” -Oscar Wilde
132- “Life is too short to learn German” -Oscar Wilde
133- “To be popular one must be a mediocrity.” -Oscar Wilde
134- “Only the shallow know themselves.” -Oscar Wilde
135- “We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.” -Oscar Wilde
136- “Don’t use big words. They mean so little.” -Oscar Wilde
137- “Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.” -Oscar Wilde
138- “A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.” -Oscar Wilde
139- “Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.” -Oscar Wilde
140- “In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.” -Oscar Wilde
141- “Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.” -Oscar Wilde
142- “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
143- “She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.” -Oscar Wilde
144- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” -Oscar Wilde
145- “One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.” -Oscar Wilde
146- “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” -Oscar Wilde
147- “When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own.” -Oscar Wilde
148- “Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .” -Oscar Wilde
149- “We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.” -Oscar Wilde
150- “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
151- “Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.” -Oscar Wilde
152- “The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.” -Oscar Wilde
153- “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” -Oscar Wilde
154- “Some things are too important to be taken seriously.” -Oscar Wilde
155- “Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” -Oscar Wilde
156- “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” -Oscar Wilde
157- “Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” -Oscar Wilde
