In our whole life we always pass through a moment of depression,unhappiness and anxiety.Why can’t we enjoy anything at that time ?It’s only because of lack of motivation & inspiration of some true leader that actually pushed up from the worst phase of our Life.In this case one must read Oscar Wilde quotes to get proper inspiration and enjoy life again.
If you are a fan of literature, you must have heard about Oscar Wilde.He was a brilliant playwright, novelist, and social commentator.His quotes are not only thoughtful but also a reflection of his life experiences.
In this article,we have featured some of Oscar Wilde quotes that still plays a significant role in our life.From these quotes you will find a unique insight of Oscar Wilde’s mind and his philosophy of life.
Let’s take a journey on the greatest Oscar Wild quotes and remove all complexity in your life.
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Life
1. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde
2. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”― Oscar Wilde
3. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”― Oscar Wilde
4. “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”― Oscar Wilde
5. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”― Oscar Wilde
6. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”― Oscar Wilde
7. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”― Oscar Wilde
8. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”― Oscar Wilde
9. “Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.”― Oscar Wilde
10. “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”― Oscar Wilde
11. “Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”― Oscar Wilde
12. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”― Oscar Wilde
13. “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”― Oscar Wilde
14. “The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”― Oscar Wilde
15. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”― Oscar Wilde
16. “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.”― Oscar Wilde
17. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”― Oscar Wilde
18. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”― Oscar Wilde
19. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.”― Oscar Wilde
20. “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”― Oscar Wilde
21. “Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.”― Oscar Wilde
22. “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”― Oscar Wilde
23. “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”― Oscar Wilde
24. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”― Oscar Wilde
25. “The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”― Oscar Wilde
26. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”― Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Love
27. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”― Oscar Wilde
28. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”― Oscar Wilde
29. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”― Oscar Wilde
30. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”― Oscar Wilde
31. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”― Oscar Wilde
32. “Women are made to be loved, not understood.”― Oscar Wilde
33. “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”― Oscar Wilde
34. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”― Oscar Wilde
35. “The heart was made to be broken.”― Oscar Wilde
36. “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”― Oscar Wilde
37. “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”― Oscar Wilde
38. “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”― Oscar Wilde
39. “When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”― Oscar Wilde
40. “Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.”― Oscar Wilde
41. “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”― Oscar Wilde
42. “A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”― Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Be Yourself
43. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”― Oscar Wilde
44. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”― Oscar Wilde
45. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”― Oscar Wilde
46. “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
47. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”― Oscar Wilde
48. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”― Oscar Wilde
49. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”― Oscar Wilde
50. “If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”― Oscar Wilde
51. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”― Oscar Wilde
52. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”― Oscar Wilde
53. “Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”― Oscar Wilde
54. “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”― Oscar Wilde
55. “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”― Oscar Wilde
56. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”― Oscar Wilde
57. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”― Oscar Wilde
58. “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”― Oscar Wilde
59. “I can resist everything except temptation.”― Oscar Wilde
60. “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”― Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Work
61. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”― Oscar Wilde
62. “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”― Oscar Wilde
63. “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
64. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”― Oscar Wilde
65. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.”― Oscar Wilde
66. “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”― Oscar Wilde
67. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”― Oscar Wilde
68. “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”― Oscar Wilde
69. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”― Oscar Wilde
70. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”― Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Society & Education
71. “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”― Oscar Wilde
72. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”― Oscar Wilde
73. “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”― Oscar Wilde
74. “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”― Oscar Wilde
75. “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”― Oscar Wilde
76. “Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”― Oscar Wilde
77.“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”― Oscar Wilde
80. “The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.”― Oscar Wilde
81. “Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.”― Oscar Wilde
82. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”― Oscar Wilde
83. “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”― Oscar Wilde
84. “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.”― Oscar Wilde
85. “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”― Oscar Wilde
86. “Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”― Oscar Wilde
87. “It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”― Oscar Wilde
88. “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”― Oscar Wilde
89. “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”― Oscar Wilde
90. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”― Oscar Wilde
91. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”― Oscar Wilde
92. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”― Oscar Wilde
93. “They’ve promised that dreams can come true- but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”― Oscar Wilde
94. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”― Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes on Books & Art
95. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”― Oscar Wilde
96. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”― Oscar Wilde
97. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”― Oscar Wilde
98. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”― Oscar Wilde
99. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”― Oscar Wilde
100. “Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.”― Oscar Wilde
101. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”― Oscar Wilde
102. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”― Oscar Wilde
103. “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.”― Oscar Wilde
104. “Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‘Dorian Gray’ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.”― Oscar Wilde
105. “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”― Oscar Wilde
106. “I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.”― Oscar Wilde
107. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”― Oscar Wilde
108. “Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”― Oscar Wilde
109. “No better way is there to learn to love nature than to understand art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”― Oscar Wilde
110. “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”― Oscar Wilde
