Oscar Wilde

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"You are beautiful when you are happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him."

- Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

- Oscar Wilde

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"No se puede enseñar nada que valga la pena conocer."

- Oscar Wilde

""You can never be overdressed or overeducated.""

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"True friends stab you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

- Oscar Wilde

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

- Oscar Wilde

"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."

- Oscar Wilde

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

""The heart was made to be broken.""

- Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Wisdom comes with winters."

- Oscar Wilde

"Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

- Oscar Wilde

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

"When you catch an adjective, kill it. No I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable."

- Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

- Oscar Wilde

"Genius is born—not paid."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

- Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde

"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”"

- Oscar Wilde

"Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Memories are the diary we all carry with us."

- Oscar Wilde

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

- Oscar Wilde

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. I say it’s perfectly heartless you’re eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."

- Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness everywhere they go, others wherever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"I’m not old enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"A man can live happily with any woman if he doesn’t love them."

- Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever, sometimes I don’t understand a word of what I’m saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde

"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the Moon, who could not be happy?"

- Oscar Wilde

"The moon in her chariot of pearl."

- Oscar Wilde

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."

- Oscar Wilde

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

- Oscar Wilde

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

- Oscar Wilde

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

- Oscar Wilde

""The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.""

- Oscar Wilde

"I’d rather wear flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck. I don’t want to earn a living I want to live."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

""Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Bad artists always admire each other’s work."

- Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

- Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

- Oscar Wilde

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught."

- Oscar Wilde

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does."

- Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

- Oscar Wilde

"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."

- Oscar Wilde

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

- Oscar Wilde

"God and other artists are always a little obscure."

- Oscar Wilde

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

- Oscar Wilde

"“Men always want to be a woman’s first love, women like to be man’s last romance.”"

- Oscar Wilde

"”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”"

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."

- Oscar Wilde

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

- Oscar Wilde

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

- Oscar Wilde

""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"

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"

- Oscar Wilde

"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken"

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

- Oscar Wilde

""After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.""

- Oscar Wilde

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

""A flower blossoms for its own joy.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Hearts live by being wounded."

- Oscar Wilde

"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."

- Oscar Wilde

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

- Oscar Wilde

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

- Oscar Wilde

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you will surely get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

"A write is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."

- Oscar Wilde

"Making preschoolers happy is the best way to make them good."

- Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- 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

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

""Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

- Oscar Wilde

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for."

- Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde

"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself, everyone else is taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."

- Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

- Oscar Wilde

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."

- Oscar Wilde

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

- Oscar Wilde

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

- 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

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

- Oscar Wilde

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

- Oscar Wilde

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

- Oscar Wilde

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

- 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

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

- Oscar Wilde

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

- Oscar Wilde

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

- Oscar Wilde

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

- Oscar Wilde

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

- Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

- Oscar Wilde

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

- Oscar Wilde

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

- Oscar Wilde

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

- Oscar Wilde

"Hearts are made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

- Oscar Wilde

"I can never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to read on the train."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is never fair . . . And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"To realise one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for."

- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope."

- Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."

- Oscar Wilde

"When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde

"For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."

- Oscar Wilde

"All art is quite useless."

- Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love is easily killed."

- 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

"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

- Oscar Wilde

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."

- Oscar Wilde

"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."

- Oscar Wilde

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

- Oscar Wilde

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

- Oscar Wilde

"Men become old, but they never become good."

- Oscar Wilde

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects."

- Oscar Wilde

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."

- Oscar Wilde

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"Bee yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one6s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

""Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.""

- Oscar Wilde

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

- Oscar Wilde

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

- Oscar Wilde

""Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Men always want to be a woman’s first love, women like to be man’s last romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

- Oscar Wilde

"Genius is born—not paid"

- Oscar Wilde

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."

- Oscar Wilde

"I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter."

- Oscar Wilde

"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself because everyone else is taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth."

- Oscar Wilde

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

- Oscar Wilde

"Youth is wasted on the young."

- Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward."

- Oscar Wilde

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

- Oscar Wilde

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

- Oscar Wilde

"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

- Oscar Wilde

"Make people laugh when you tell them the truth, or they will kill you."

- Oscar Wilde

"Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow."

- Oscar Wilde

"If I can't be famous I'll be notorious."

- Oscar Wilde

"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."

- Oscar Wilde

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

- Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde

"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

- Oscar Wilde

"Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn’t say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."

- Oscar Wilde

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about."

- Oscar Wilde

"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have nothing to declare but my genius!"

- Oscar Wilde

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best two days in any theater person's life are the day he starts a new show and the day the damned thing is over with."

- Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."

- Oscar Wilde

"Divorces are made in heaven."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde