If you love witty and sometimes more or less cynical epigrams and citations, then you’d love the Wonderful Oscar Wilde quotes.
More importantly, they always make you think and laugh.
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Short Introduction On Oscar Wilde
We are almost sure that almost everybody knows Oscar Wilde. He has been immensely popular for more than a century.
Anyhow, let’s spend a few words about him.
He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. He is known for his harsh wit and an abundance of aphorisms. He became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. His plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. His other most notable works are the tragedy Salome and especially his only gothic novel, Picture of Dorian Gray.
As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labor after being convicted of “gross indecency” with other men. After being released from prison, Wilde went to France and never returned to Great Britain or Ireland. He died in France from meningitis at age 46.
In 2017, Wilde was pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offenses.
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Inspirational quotes about love and about loving loving yourself
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
Fantastic quotes about Love and romance
Fantastic, can a bid bread term? However, reading them will be a great pleasure for everyone who accepts a little humor.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Striking quotes from Oscar Wilde on emotions.
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Splendid quotes about strategic intelligence.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Remarkable citations on life and living
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Marvellous quotes on temptation.
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
Significant quotes on books, reading and literature
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
Unbelievable quotes about truth and truthfulness.
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“To define is to limit.”
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“Only the shallow know themselves”
“Punctuality is the thief of time”
“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
Wonderful citations about art
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Unthinkable quotes from Oscar Wilde about fashion.
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Great quotes about identity and self-consciousness.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Charming citations about dreamers and dreams.
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.”
“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Entertaining quotes about friendships and enemies.
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Truthful quotes on humans and humanity.
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Amusing quotations about women.
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...”
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde’s hilarious cites on Men
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
Intriguing quotes about relations.
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
Unbelievable humorous quotes.
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
“Life is too short to learn German”
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
Guilty quotes on Sin
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
Utterly comical quotes on cynicism and insults.
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
O. Wilde’s specific quotes on cleverness
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
I am not young enough to know everything.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Striking quotes about the world and the humankind overall
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....”
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Hellish exciting quotes about the devil, hell and our dark side.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wildes excellent educational quotations.
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
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.
Universal quotes regarding philosophy and wisdom.
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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