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
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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
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.Oscar Wilde
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The essence of art is to produce the modern idea under an antique form.Oscar Wilde
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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
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.Oscar Wilde
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde
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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 romanceOscar Wilde
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To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.Oscar Wilde
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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
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An egg is always an adventure.Oscar Wilde
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When I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a load with a field in the middle of it.Oscar Wilde
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.Oscar Wilde
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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
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Work is the curse of the drinking classesOscar Wilde
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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
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Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries.Oscar Wilde
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.Oscar Wilde
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I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy.Oscar Wilde
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To awaken gratitude in the ungrateful were as vain as to try to wake the dead by cries.Oscar Wilde
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Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
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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
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.Oscar Wilde
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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
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.Oscar Wilde
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.Oscar Wilde
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
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He has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.Oscar Wilde
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The english country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde
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One can never repeat exactly the same emotion.Oscar Wilde