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.'
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.Oscar Wilde
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It was better to be good-looking than to be good.Oscar Wilde
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.Oscar Wilde
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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.Oscar Wilde
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in the beautiful things are the cultivated. Oscar Wilde
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.Oscar Wilde
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. Oscar Wilde
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.Oscar Wilde
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Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
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The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.Oscar Wilde
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is Iying for its own sake. Oscar Wilde
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever marry, I’ll try to forget the fact.Oscar Wilde
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.Oscar Wilde
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
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But love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them.Oscar Wilde
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.Oscar Wilde
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There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde
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Men always want to be a woman's first love...what (women) like is to be a man's last romance.Oscar Wilde
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When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.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 romance.Oscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.Oscar Wilde
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.Oscar Wilde
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.Oscar Wilde
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.Oscar Wilde
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over matter.Oscar Wilde
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With a proper background, women can do anything.Oscar Wilde