Best Oscar Wilde Quotes

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​is getting it."​about.”​“Men marry because ​that God in ​, ​wants, and the other ​man knows anything ​or near relation.”​“I sometimes think ​, ​

​getting what one ​thing no married ​by a sister ​taught.”​websites: ​

​life: one is not ​woman. It is a ​piano when played ​knowing can be ​Information obtained from ​two tragedies in ​of a married ​annoying than the ​that is worth ​go."​"There are only ​

​like the devotion ​expression, is no more ​time that nothing ​will have to ​nothing."​in the world ​“The typewriting machine, when played with ​

​from time to ​of me. One of us ​the value of ​“There is nothing ​nothing.” ​

​well to remember ​be the death ​

​of everything and ​much for it.”​

​thing you can't get for ​admirable thing, but it is ​

​"This wallpaper will ​knows the price ​

​great deal too ​“Experience is one ​

Oscar Wilde Quotes About Art

​10. “Education is an ​over function.​cynic? A man who ​

​is charging a ​go.”​calculating.”​

​fondness for aesthetics ​"What is a ​save that he ​wherever they go, others whenever they ​age. It looks so ​

​summed up his ​drinking classes."​he is selling ​“Some cause happiness ​accurate about her ​

​history and perfectly ​curse of the ​nothing of what ​useless information.”​ever be quite ​the funniest in ​"Work is the ​“The salesman knows ​

​is so little ​“No woman should ​words were among ​about."​

​of the world.”​that nowadays there ​the world.”​of affairs. His rumored last ​not being talked ​before the rest ​very sad thing ​less trouble in ​body's sad state ​being talked about, and that is ​sees the dawn ​“It is a ​the world, there would be ​

​spite of his ​life worse than ​is that he ​result.”​less sympathy in ​

​much intact in ​one thing in ​way by moonlight, and his punishment ​have the conditions, you get the ​“If there was ​was still very ​"There is only ​only find his ​science if you ​a romance.”​that his wit ​of Chaos/ Flickr CC​one who can ​“Success is a ​the world calls ​meningitis, Oscar Wilde proved ​

​thierry ehrmann Abode ​“A dreamer is ​the train.”​“Deceiving others. That is what ​dying of cerebral ​more sense.​are only individuals.”​to read on ​human being.”​As he lay ​Forget religion; this makes way ​real world there ​have something sensational ​a perfectly normal ​a$$ of yourself.”​dislike."​

​concept in the ​without my diary. One should always ​if she were ​to make an ​whom we personally ​as a mental ​

​“I never travel ​treating her as ​death your right ​

​adopt towards people ​“Society exists only ​friends.”​who insists on ​defend to the ​the attitude we ​like him.”​disliked by his ​with a man ​agree with you, but I will ​"Morality is simply ​of his friends ​

​enemies, but is intensely ​to be happy ​“I may not ​is badly cast."​enemies and none ​“He has no ​woman be expected ​with company.”​a stage, but the play ​

​he has no ​sexes.”​“How can a ​without providing you ​"The world is ​

​“An excellent man ​difference between the ​

​so much.” ​you of solitude ​everything."​a future.” ​disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the ​enemies – nothing annoys them ​someone who deprives ​

​everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know ​every sinner has ​“Women are never ​“Always forgive your ​“A bore is ​"The old believe ​a past and ​tragedy. No man does. That's his.”​be quite civilized.”​for you.​other kind?​

​“Every saint has ​like their mothers. That is their ​how to listen, society here would ​world, this quote is ​Are there any ​teaching.”​

​“All women become ​talk, and the Irish ​Slackers of the ​past."​has taken to ​fiction.”​

​English how to ​in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”​who have a ​

​incapable of learning ​her work of ​only teach the ​

​would do anything ​future and women ​“Everybody who is ​his autobiography. A woman's face is ​

​“If one could ​my youth I ​who have a ​

​expensive.”​“A man's face is ​the commercial classes.”​“To get back ​"I like men ​demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more ​the failure.” ​the memory of ​screens and gadgets?​Girl, bye.​

​a man! It is as ​last refuge of ​to live in ​modern obsessions with ​go."​43. “How marriage ruins ​“Ambition is the ​one can hope ​

​think of our ​wherever they go; others whenever they ​except genius.”​is absolutely fatal.”​one's bills that ​what Oscar would ​"Some cause happiness ​wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything ​deal of it ​by not paying ​Can you imagine ​seldom follow it."​“The public is ​thing, and a great ​“It is only ​our only necessities.”​

​but I very ​never simple.”​is a dangerous ​settlement.”​unnecessary things are ​very good advice ​rarely pure and ​“A little sincerity ​end with a ​an age when ​Wonderland, "I give myself ​“The truth is ​to be popular.”​with science and ​“We live in ​

​in Alice In ​will last.”​vulgar, it will cease ​begin with sentiment. It should begin ​Via Time Out.​

​As Alice said ​terrible. I hope it ​looked upon as ​“Romance should never ​breakfast.”​

Oscar Wilde Quotes About Goodness

​oneself."​“This suspense is ​have its fascination. When it is ​good reputation.”​

​are brilliant at ​any use to ​yield to.”​as wicked, it will always ​

​everything except a ​“Only dull people ​pass it on. It is never ​it requires strength, strength, and courage to ​war is regarded ​

​everything, nowadays, except death, and live down ​anything except temptation.”​good advice is ​terrible temptations which ​“As long as ​“One can survive ​“I can resist ​to do with ​

​that there are ​harm.”​love.”​mistakes.”​"The only thing ​

​to temptation? I tell you ​great deal of ​“Hatred is blind, as well as ​gave to their ​statement.​weakness that yields ​become useful, it does a ​

​young.”​the name men ​truth in this ​think it is ​

​is trying to ​gods love grow ​“Experience is merely ​vouch for the ​“Do you really ​

​House of Commons ​“Those whom the ​overeducated.”​trouble yourself (and who hasn't?), you too can ​food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”​“Now that the ​romance.”​

​be overdressed or ​and gotten into ​“I want my ​creates.”​

​of a lifelong ​“You can never ​to help someone ​vicious.”​critical spirit that ​is the beginning ​

​friends are there.”​If you've ever tried ​virtue of the ​“The imagination imitates. It is the ​“To love oneself ​

​go to heaven. None of my ​goes unpunished.”​“Patriotism is the ​tragedy.”​of their lives. But women, when they love, give everything.”​“I don't want to ​

​“No good deed ​front.” ​is simply a ​

​but a little ​Sad but true.​see for yourself.​you in the ​out of it ​men love women. They give them ​

​in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”​on. Give the "kill 'em with kindness" approach sometime and ​“True friends stab ​a bore. But to be ​“I see when ​the rarest thing ​

Oscar Wilde Quotes About Life

​approach to moving ​give our mistakes.”​it is merely ​“Who, being loved, is poor?”​“To live is ​tried and true ​the name we ​is wonderfully delightful. To be in ​

​never marry.”​Why sugar-coat it?​This is a ​“Experience is simply ​“I suppose society ​reason one should ​

​is."​so much."​drinking classes.”​truth.”​be in love. That is the ​know that it ​enemies; nothing annoys them ​curse of the ​

​tell you the ​“One should always ​am old I ​"Always forgive your ​“Work is the ​

​mask, and he will ​love her.”​thing in life; now that I ​social media!​

​thoroughly modern intellect.”​own person. Give him a ​he does not ​the most important ​Share it on ​

​unexpected shows a ​talks in his ​any woman, as long as ​that money was ​Quotations.​“To expect the ​

​himself when he ​be happy with ​young I thought ​Wisdom: A Book of ​else.”​“Man is least ​

​“A man can ​"When I was ​Wilde's Wit and ​think of nothing ​terror.”​intellects.”​

​Public Domain​you read Oscar ​the poor. The poor can ​death a new ​us everything, even our gigantic ​freak flag fly!​writings, we would suggest ​rich, and that is ​“Biography lends to ​

​enough of them, they will forgive ​and let that ​Oscar Wilde's works and ​money than the ​

​explain away.”​for our defects. If we have ​

​be someone else, anyway? Be like Oscar ​know more about ​thinks more about ​that one cannot ​“Women love us ​Who'd want to ​If you'd like to ​the community that ​the nineteenth century ​love.”​already taken.”​them.”​one class in ​two facts in ​has ceased to ​

​“Be yourself; everyone else is ​rarely if ever, do they forgive ​“There is only ​are the only ​people whom one ​

Oscar Wilde Quotes About Love

​that can happen.​they judge them ​

​are disappointed.”​“Death and vulgarity ​the emotions of ​

​the worst thing ​after a time ​are curious both ​overestimated his ability.”​something ridiculous about ​you want is ​

​loving their parents ​they are tired, women because they ​creating man somewhat ​– women like to ​Sometimes getting what ​

​“Children begin by ​except continue to ​friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”​for family life.”​own clothes.”​were to accustom ​

​to choose a ​and two none.”​“If you are ​and love a ​about.”​

​“There is only ​two tragedies in ​that it makes ​anything that looks ​too important a ​

​is so often ​thing in life; now that I ​works.” ​“I put all ​

​with pain. One should sympathize ​

​astounding stupidity of ​ending for one.”​“Laughter is not ​of us that ​

​opinion.”​to oneself.”​“I always pass ​ugly.”​

​to be beautiful ​to divide people ​“Anybody can be ​

​good advice is ​adopt towards people ​

Oscar Wilde, More Quotes And Sayings

​be too careful ​“I choose my ​“If one plays ​whole world kin.”​

​the world has ​try to make ​which may occur ​determined by the ​Shakespeare's plays, the first thing ​

​it their own ​aesthetics will see ​artistic instincts will ​understand it.”​reason why the ​is worked out ​is not that ​

​“A poet can ​to invent, not to chronicle.”​“All bad poetry ​ever sees things ​it is like ​of what it ​

​art forms, the most immediate ​the old art ​“What we have ​

​can equally and ​the symbol do ​at once surface ​should be a ​the expression of ​a disturbing and ​feeling is a ​all but harming ​writing it would ​

​should be allowed ​throw the customary ​a bird on ​

​understand Art. It dignifies every ​you.”​vitality.”​prettiness or lifeless ​artist than any ​

​art is the ​the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely ​one's imagination.”​critic.”​art imitates Life.” ​

​“It is the ​About Life​• Oscar Wilde Quotes ​Here are 125 ​his writings, his works are ​Crust (the most affluent ​his writings mocked ​of the best-known personalities of ​

​The Importance of ​early 1890s. He is best ​woman's first love ​anything for her ​

​women, there is no ​only proper basis ​in fashioning our ​life if we ​to do is ​“In married life, three is company ​

​every artist.”​to admire intensely ​not being talked ​

​is getting it.”​“There are only ​about marriage is ​grown suspicious of ​“Life is far ​“One's real life ​the most important ​

​talent into my ​better.”​the modern sympathy ​to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the ​far the best ​to Paris.”​thing for most ​

​exactly the same ​of any use ​best.”​

​than to be ​“It is better ​“It is absurd ​to oneself.” ​to do with ​the attitude we ​

​for their intellects. A man cannot ​don't talk.”​fiction means.”​a good platitude. It makes the ​of individualism that ​popular. The public should ​actual historical references ​

​for the drama. This should be ​for any of ​will see in ​more strongly than ​and complete, those who have ​

​aesthetic critic can ​personality. That is the ​do as much, but that it ​

​all good art ​realize our perfection.”​the artist is ​artist.”​

​“No great artist ​your heart. A life without ​another the sense ​

​greatest of all ​do, is to revive ​quite useless.”​an auctioneer who ​

​their peril. Those who read ​“All art is ​life, and yet it ​recognized organ for ​

​“Art is individualism, and individualism is ​is painted with ​public, blinding them to ​foolish and random ​no ordinary newspaper ​

​will probably not ​of beauty which ​Nature than to ​of art, it's dead for ​

​strip it of ​either into weak ​to the young ​“A work of ​social problems of ​

​one's reason; bad people stir ​to educate the ​far more than ​

​Sayings​• Oscar Wilde Quotes ​more.​

​and academics alike.​critics say about ​of the Upper ​comedies, and some of ​skill, Wilde became one ​Dorian Gray , as well as ​

​poet during the ​to be a ​a woman, he will do ​“Between men and ​

​heard. That is the ​colors we can ​more joy in ​things for us ​all my life.” ​life of almost ​for any artist ​being talked about, and that is ​wants, and the other ​

​for both parties.”​“The one charm ​“The world has ​

​lead.”​is.”​that money was ​

​put only my ​about life's sores the ​terribly morbid in ​

​you very seriously. If you pretend ​a friendship, and it is ​die they go ​

​is a good ​good society holds ​do with it. It is never ​

​satisfied with the ​to be good ​

​charming or tedious.”​temptations there.”​of any use ​“The only thing ​“Morality is simply ​their good characters, and my enemies ​bad music people ​unhappily. That is what ​

​an effect as ​most intense mode ​try to be ​

​than by any ​the best date ​scenery and costumes ​

​terror, and the unclean ​whom ethics appeal ​rich and vital ​

​cannot learn it, and why the ​“Technique is really ​or finely, for machinery may ​“The mark of ​

​only, that we can ​“The function of ​to be an ​are dead.”​

​“Keep love in ​can share with ​theatre as the ​our duty to ​

​“All art is ​“It is only ​do so at ​pleasure.”​literature, art and modern ​

​be made the ​sitter.” ​“Every portrait that ​artist, but to the ​do by their ​

​a law that ​wood or canvas ​sees the thing ​learn to love ​a great work ​all, you must not ​led by it ​“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous ​

​desire.”​aloof from the ​art, fascinating studies. They represent color, variety, and strangeness. Good people exasperate ​public; the artist has ​“Life imitates art ​• Oscar Wilde, More Quotes And ​About Goodness​

​you appreciate art, life, and love even ​today amongst students ​No matter what ​and the hypocrisy ​plays were satirical ​flamboyant outfits, sharp wit, and remarkable conversational ​The Picture of ​a well-known playwright and ​

​“There is always ​“Men always want ​has once loved ​to be loved, not understood.”​neither seen nor ​all the beautiful ​

​dress for men. There would be ​the most difficult ​here for you ​incident in the ​is perfectly natural ​life worse than ​getting what one ​deception absolutely necessary ​

​married life.”​talk seriously about.”​



Wilde's New Twist on Turning the Other Cheek

​one does not ​know that it ​young I thought ​

​my life I ​life. The less said ​“There is something ​to be good, the world takes ​bad beginning for ​

Life Does Have a Way of Smacking Us Down Sometimes

​“When good Americans ​fair, and perhaps it ​

​vulgar, for everyone in ​only thing to ​simplest tastes. I am always ​good. But… it is better ​bad. People are either ​country. There are no ​on. It is never ​

It's Always Easier When It's Somebody Else's Life

​dislike.”​of his enemies.”​good looks, my acquaintances for ​if one plays ​happily, and the bad ​“In modern life, nothing produces such ​

​“Art is the ​“Art should never ​the play more ​to settle is ​“In designing the ​the cowardly with ​

Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out

​and those to ​of art is ​it, why the pupil ​

​and the workman's heart.”​

They're Much More Interesting That Way

​is done exactly ​a misprint.”​art, and through art ​feeling.” ​are. If he did, he would cease ​

​when the flowers ​a human being.”​

Truer Words Have Seldom Been Spoken

​a human being ​“I regard the ​rate it is ​

There Are Definitely Some Bad Characters Out There

​schools of art.”​peril.”​beneath the surface ​

Holier Than Thou?

​could read with ​all subjects of ​“The Lady's World should ​artist, not of the ​at all.”​

​overestimate – not to the ​art. The harm they ​

Wilde's Views on Notoriety

​“There should be ​when transferred to ​

​field. And, the boy who ​is there to ​think you understand ​the ideal at ​beauty: he is constantly ​a unique temperament.”​

Work Is Always Getting in the Way of the Fun Stuff

​that which we ​itself by keeping ​of view of ​

How Very... Cynical of Him

​to educate the ​mirrors.”​About Love​• Oscar Wilde Quotes ​that will make ​popular as ever ​

The Everlasting Paradox

​community).​fun of London’s social hierarchy ​Many of his ​Known for his ​epigrams, plays, and his novels ​Oscar Wilde was ​

​be a man's last romance.” ​love her.”​“When a man ​“Women are made ​

Simple Yet Oh-So-True Words of Advice

​“Fathers should be ​ourselves to use ​

​notable and joyous ​“Perhaps one of ​not too long, I will wait ​young man. It is an ​

It Does Make Things Easier

​“I think it ​

​one thing in ​life: one is not ​a life of ​like a happily ​thing ever to ​the life that ​am old I ​“When I was ​

​my genius into ​

There's a Big Difference

​with the color, the beauty, the joy of ​optimism.”​“If you pretend ​

​at all a ​

Sounds Totally BORING!

​it is not.” ​“Life is never ​“Arguments are extremely ​

Challenge Accepted

​on good advice. It is the ​“I have the ​than to be ​

Some Have More Experience Than Others

​into good and ​good in the ​to pass it ​whom we personally ​

Anything but That!

​in the choice ​friends for their ​

Most of Us Need Coffee First

​good music, people don't listen and ​“The good ended ​known.”​

And This Was Even Before Cell Phones!

​itself artistic.” ​

​in it.”​general spirit of ​the artist has ​shame.”​

​its moral lesson. It will fill ​see its beauty ​“If a work ​artist cannot teach ​with the head ​

OK, So Maybe We'll Just Get Old

​the thing done ​survive everything but ​“It is through ​springs from genuine ​

​as they really ​a sunless garden ​is to be ​

Sounds Like Every Person I've Ever Sat Next to on a Plane

​way in which ​of Lying.”​to do, what at any ​impartially admire all ​so at their ​

Freedom of Speech Is Not Freedom From Consequences

​and symbol. Those who go ​magazine that men ​women's opinions on ​disintegrating force.”​portrait of the ​the artist not ​

Famous Last Words

​be impossible to ​to write about ​stone.”​the wing becomes ​flower of the ​“No better way ​“The moment you ​abstraction: whereas to touch ​conception of ideal ​unique result of ​realizes for us ​“Art never harms ​“Bad people are, from the point ​“The critic has ​spectator, and not life, that art really ​

​• Oscar Wilde Quotes ​About Art​Oscar Wilde quotes ​still undeniably meaningful, and they're still as ​members of the ​



​the Victorian aristocracy. His comedy made ​his era.​
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