Oscar Wilde Quotes
Born: December 25, 1854
Oscar Wilde, the incandescent Irish wit and aesthete, remains the unrivaled high priest of creativity and style. A dazzling playwright, poet, and provocateur, he championed art for art’s sake, believing that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. His philosophy was a rebellion against the mundane, a celebration of beauty, paradox, and the exquisite power of individuality. Wilde’s legacy endures because his words are not merely clever; they are dangerous truths wrapped in velvet. They resonate as a defiant, timeless anthem for anyone who dares to live with flair, challenge convention, and find profound meaning in the pursuit of the beautiful.
Oscar Wilde Quotes (74)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
— Oscar Wilde"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
— Oscar Wilde"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde"I can resist everything except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
— 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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
— Oscar Wilde"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
— Oscar Wilde"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
— Oscar Wilde"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
— Oscar Wilde"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
— Oscar Wilde"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
— Oscar Wilde"True friends stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
— Oscar Wilde"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
— Oscar Wilde"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
— Oscar Wilde"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
— Oscar Wilde"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
— Oscar Wilde"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
— Oscar Wilde"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
— Oscar Wilde"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
— Oscar Wilde