Oscar Wilde Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Oscar Wilde quotes, Oscar Wilde sayings, and Oscar Wilde proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

I like people who are young, bright, happy, careless and original. I do not like them sensible, and I do not like them old. Oscar Wilde
I delight in the society of people much younger than myself. I like those who may be called idle or careless. I recognise no social distinctions at all of any kind; and to me youth, the mere fact of youth, is so wonderful that I would sooner talk to a young man for half-an-hour than be—well, cross-examined in Court. Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. Oscar Wilde
The essence of art is to produce the modern idea under an antique form. Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.What we like is to be a man's last romance Oscar Wilde
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. Oscar Wilde
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves, they are nearly always interesting. Oscar Wilde
An egg is always an adventure. Oscar Wilde
When I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a load with a field in the middle of it. Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes Oscar Wilde
The sovereignty of Greece and Rome is not yet passed away, though the gods of one be dead and the eagles of the other tired. Oscar Wilde
Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries. Oscar Wilde
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful. Oscar Wilde
I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy. Oscar Wilde
To awaken gratitude in the ungrateful were as vain as to try to wake the dead by cries. Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
The moaning wind went wandering round / The weeping prison-wall: / Till like a wheel of turning steel / We felt the minutes crawl: / O moaning wind! what had we done / To have such a seneschal? Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous.. the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Oscar Wilde
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
He has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde
The english country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde
One can never repeat exactly the same emotion. Oscar Wilde