List Of 50 Oscar Wilde Quotes:
#1 “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – De Profundis
#2 “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
#3 “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
#4 “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
#5 “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
#6 “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
#7 “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – The Importance of Being Earnest
#8 “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
#9 “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
#10 “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
#11 “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
#12 “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
#13 “I can resist everything except temptation.”
#14 “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
#15 “It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But, it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
#16 “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time, they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” – A Woman of No Importance
#17 “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
#18 “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
#19 “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
#20 “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
#21 “Everything popular is wrong.”
#22 “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
#23 “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
#24 “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women like to be a man’s last romance.”
#25 “True friends stab you in the front.”
#26 “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
#27 “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
#28 “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
#29 “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
#30 “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
#31 “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
#32 “Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
#33 “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
#34 “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
#35 “When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.”
#36 “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
#37 “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.”
#38 “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
#39 “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
#40 “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
#41 “Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
#42 “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
#43 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
#44 “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
#45 “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
#46 “I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — The Complete Fairy Tales
#47 “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – A Woman of No Importance
#48 “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months!”
#49 “In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
#50 “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”