Top 100 Wilde Oscar Quotes
#1. Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:
Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): "Either it goes, or I do."
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): "Ditto."
Roberta Pearce
#2. Every thing to be true must become a religion.
Oscar Wilde
#3. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
#6. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#8. London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#11. If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
Oscar Wilde
#12. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
#14. To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
#17. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#18. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
#20. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#21. If music be the food of love, get me a supersized big mac, chips, two apple pies and a large milkshake.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.
Debasish Mridha
#24. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
Oscar Wilde
#25. Yes, the lad was premature. He was gathering his harvest while it was yet spring.
Oscar Wilde
#26. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#27. It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.
Oscar Wilde
#28. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
Oscar Wilde
#29. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?
Oscar Wilde
#31. O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
Oscar Wilde
#32. Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
Oscar Wilde
#33. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#34. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
Oscar Wilde
#36. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde
#37. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
Oscar Wilde
#38. We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Oscar Wilde
#39. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
#40. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
Oscar Wilde
#42. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?
Dan Ariely
#43. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.
Debasish Mridha
#44. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.
Debasish Mridha
#45. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
#46. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
#47. Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is.
Oscar Wilde
#48. When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I
Oscar Wilde
#50. Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
Oscar Wilde
#51. Even if you are sad, don't forget to sing the song of love.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
#55. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#58. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
#59. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
Oscar Wilde
#60. The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#61. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Oscar Wilde
#62. You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
Noel Coward
#65. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
Oscar Wilde
#66. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
#68. The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
Oscar Wilde
#69. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.
Oscar Wilde
#70. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
#71. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
#72. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. Somebody--I
Oscar Wilde
#73. Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde
#74. My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.
Oscar Wilde
#75. Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
#76. Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious
all right, not an icon, let him be our oriflamme.
Lara Biyuts
#77. There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.
Debasish Mridha
#78. When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.
Oscar Wilde
#79. I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
Oscar Wilde
#81. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
Oscar Wilde
#82. One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Oscar Wilde
#83. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.
Oscar Wilde
#84. We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be
Once with our heart
Oscar Wilde
#85. Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.
Debasish Mridha
#86. I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Oscar Wilde
#87. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
Oscar Wilde
#88. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
Oscar Wilde
#90. I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you
Oscar Wilde
#91. The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
#92. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.
Oscar Wilde
#94. I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
#95. You are very strong if you're empowered by love and simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#96. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
Oscar Wilde
#98. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
#100. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
