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.'

Only one thing remains infinitely fascinating to me, the mystery of moods. To be master of these moods is exquisite, to me mastered by them more exquisite still. Oscar Wilde
We lose our chances, we lose our figures, we even lose our characters; but we must never lose our tempers. That is our duty to our neighbor...but sometimes we mislay it, don't we? Oscar Wilde
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde
The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure. 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 a richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
To speak frankly, I'm not in favor of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. Oscar Wilde
It's obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall. Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Oscar Wilde
There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well. Oscar Wilde
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram to his tombstone. Oscar Wilde
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. Oscar Wilde
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. 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
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
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. Oscar Wilde
The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise. Oscar Wilde
Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different. Oscar Wilde
The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself. Oscar Wilde
Ah! I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose. Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is nonetheless true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. Oscar Wilde
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect development. Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde