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.'

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. Oscar Wilde
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
Nothing kills love like an overdose of it. Oscar Wilde
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. Oscar Wilde
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
American youths are pale and precocious, or sallow, and supercilious, but American girls are pretty and charming—little oases of pretty unreasonableness in a vast desert of common sense. Oscar Wilde
The strange thing about American civilization is that the women are most charming when they are away from their own country, the men most charming when they are at home. Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise Oscar Wilde
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. Oscar Wilde
In England, people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality. Oscar Wilde
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? Oscar Wilde
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world. Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
A new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Oscar Wilde
“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.” Oscar Wilde
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde
“Manners before morals!” Oscar Wilde
The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons for analysis disappears. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde
I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated. Oscar Wilde