Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.

Oscar Wilde belongs to the following category: Writers

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Thinking, Patience & EnduranceOscar Wilde
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Dreaming, AmbitionOscar Wilde
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I can resist everything except temptation.

TemptationOscar Wilde
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Be yourself! Everyone else is already taken.

Character, Self-Confidence, Aries ♈Oscar Wilde
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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.

DeathOscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Children & Childhood, ParentsOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Laughing & Smile, Truth, CriticismOscar Wilde
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To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.

ExperienceOscar Wilde (Irish Author)
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

Love, Men & WomenOscar Wilde
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Learning, EducationOscar Wilde
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Life is far too important to be taken seriously.

LifeOscar Wilde
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

LifeOscar Wilde (1854-1900, irish author)
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I have the simplest tastes: I am always satisfied with the best.

AmbitionOscar Wilde
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

TemptationOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Ambition, DesireOscar Wilde
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

ExperienceOscar Wilde
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience, Failures & MistakesOscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Forgiveness & MercyOscar Wilde
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The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.

Gossip & Rumors, PopularityOscar Wilde
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Experience, Failures & MistakesOscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

ArtOscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

ValuesOscar Wilde
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

CalmnessOscar Wilde
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

JoyOscar Wilde
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

MemoriesOscar Wilde
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and by far the best ending for one.

Laughing & Smile, FriendshipOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde
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More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

ArtOscar Wilde
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

WeatherOscar Wilde
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love, Sun, GardenOscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Humanity, MaskenOscar Wilde
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One can survive everything nowadays except death.

Oscar Wilde, Oscariana
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To be great is to be misunderstood.

Great WorksOscar Wilde
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

RosesOscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love, GardenOscar Wilde
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work, AlcoholOscar Wilde
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

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

Humanity, Knowledge, CuriosityOscar Wilde
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

19th CenturyOscar Wilde
 
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Wisdom comes with winters.

WinterOscar Wilde
 
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

WomenOscar Wilde
 
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