Oscar Wilde Quotes

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812 Quotes on Love, Forgiveness, Rebellion, and Embracing Your Unique Voice

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”

“As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.”

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“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.”

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“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”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“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.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“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.”

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”