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Oscar Wilde was a master of wit and wisdom. Here are some of his memorable quotes about life:
“Art only begins where Imitation ends.” @Oscar Wilde
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.” @Oscar Wilde
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.” @Oscar Wilde
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” @Oscar Wilde
“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.” @Oscar Wilde
“A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.” @Oscar Wilde
“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.” @Oscar Wilde
“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.” @Oscar Wilde
“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.” @Oscar Wilde
“I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.” @Oscar Wilde
“God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.” @Oscar Wilde
“Life is too short to be in a hurry.” @Oscar Wilde
“Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.” @Oscar Wilde
“Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.” @Oscar Wilde
“Disobedience is man’s original virtue.” @Oscar Wilde
“Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.” @Oscar Wilde
“A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” @Oscar Wilde
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” @Oscar Wilde
“One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes Be Yourself
“A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.” @Oscar Wilde
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” @Oscar Wilde
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” @Oscar Wilde
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” @Oscar Wilde
“Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.” @Oscar Wilde
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” @Oscar Wilde
“Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.” @Oscar Wilde
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” @Oscar Wilde
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” @Oscar Wilde
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” @Oscar Wilde
“Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.” @Oscar Wilde
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” @Oscar Wilde
“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.” @Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” @Oscar Wilde
“One should absorb the color of life.” @Oscar Wilde
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” @Oscar Wilde
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” @Oscar Wilde
“We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.” @Oscar Wilde
“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” @Oscar Wilde
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes About Art
“The sky was pure opal now.” @Oscar Wilde
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” @Oscar Wilde
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” @Oscar Wilde
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.” @Oscar Wilde
“Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the ‘L’ section, and find the word ‘life.’” @Oscar Wilde
“Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.” @Oscar Wilde
“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.” @Oscar Wilde
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” @Oscar Wilde
“Well, in the first place, girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right.” @Oscar Wilde
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” @Oscar Wilde
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.” @Oscar Wilde
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” @Oscar Wilde
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.” @Oscar Wilde
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” @Oscar Wilde
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.” @Oscar Wilde
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.” @Oscar Wilde
“Hearts Live By Being Wounded.” @Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes About Love
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” @Oscar Wilde
“Hatred is blind, as well as love.” @Oscar Wilde
“Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.” @Oscar Wilde
“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.” @Oscar Wilde
“Any place that we love becomes our world.” @Oscar Wilde
“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” @Oscar Wilde
“Don’t use big words. They mean so little.” @Oscar Wilde
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.” @Oscar Wilde
“The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you.” @Oscar Wilde
“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.” @Oscar Wilde
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” @Oscar Wilde
“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.” @Oscar Wilde
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” @Oscar Wilde
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” @Oscar Wilde
“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.” @Oscar Wilde
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” @Oscar Wilde
“The supreme vice is shallowness.” @Oscar Wilde
“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Marriage Quotes
“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.” @Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth.” @Oscar Wilde
“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.” @Oscar Wilde
“Where there is no love there is no understanding.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.” @Oscar Wilde
“It’s beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.” @Oscar Wilde
“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.” @Oscar Wilde
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” @Oscar Wilde
“A kiss may ruin a human life.” @Oscar Wilde
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” @Oscar Wilde
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.” @Oscar Wilde
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” @Oscar Wilde
“To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.” @Oscar Wilde
“True friends stab you in the front.” @Oscar Wilde
“My wish isn’t to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.” @Oscar Wilde
“I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.” @Oscar Wilde
“My wish isn’t to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray Quotes
“Art never expresses anything but itself.” @Oscar Wilde
“Circumstances should never alter principles!” @Oscar Wilde
“I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.” @Oscar Wilde
“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.” @Oscar Wilde
“I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.” @Oscar Wilde
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.” @Oscar Wilde
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.” @Oscar Wilde
“Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.” @Oscar Wilde
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.” @Oscar Wilde
“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.” @Oscar Wilde
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.” @Oscar Wilde
“The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.” @Oscar Wilde
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” @Oscar Wilde
“If we’re always guided by other people’s thoughts, what’s the point in having our own?” @Oscar Wilde
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.” @Oscar Wilde
“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.” @Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” @Oscar Wilde
“A burnt child loves the fire.” @Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes Love Poems
“You are beautiful when you are happy.” @Oscar Wilde
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.” @Oscar Wilde
“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.” @Oscar Wilde
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” @Oscar Wilde
“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” @Oscar Wilde
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” @Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.” @Oscar Wilde
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” @Oscar Wilde
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.” @Oscar Wilde
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” @Oscar Wilde
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.” @Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” @Oscar Wilde
“One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one’s hearers.” @Oscar Wilde
“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.” @Oscar Wilde
“The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.” @Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes Imitation
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.” @Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” @Oscar Wilde
“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.” @Oscar Wilde
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” @Oscar Wilde
“My philosophy? I’m always right and you are wrong.” @Oscar Wilde
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” @Oscar Wilde
“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.” @Oscar Wilde
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.” @Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.” @Oscar Wilde
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.” @Oscar Wilde
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.” @Oscar Wilde
“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.” @Oscar Wilde
“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.” @Oscar Wilde
“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.” @Oscar Wilde
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.” @Oscar Wilde
“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.” @Oscar Wilde
“There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Imitation Quote Meaning
“A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.” @Oscar Wilde
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.” @Oscar Wilde
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” @Oscar Wilde
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” @Oscar Wilde
“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.” @Oscar Wilde
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.” @Oscar Wilde
“The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.” @Oscar Wilde
“All bad art is the result of good intentions.” @Oscar Wilde
“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” @Oscar Wilde
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.” @Oscar Wilde
“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.” @Oscar Wilde
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” @Oscar Wilde
“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.” @Oscar Wilde
“Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.” @Oscar Wilde
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.” @Oscar Wilde
“The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.” @Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quotes Funny
“To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.” @Oscar Wilde
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” @Oscar Wilde
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.” @Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.” @Oscar Wilde
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” @Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.” @Oscar Wilde
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” @Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” @Oscar Wilde
“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.” @Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” @Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.” @Oscar Wilde
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” @Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” @Oscar Wilde
“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
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” @Oscar Wilde
These quotes encapsulate Wilde’s sharp insight into human nature, society, and the essence of life.
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