Oscar Wilde Quotes

Please enjoy these inspirational quotes by Oscar Wilde.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Related topics: Inspirational Nature

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- 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

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- 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

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde

Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.
No man does.
That's his.
- Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography.
A woman's face is her work of fiction.
- Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde

All that I desire to point out is the general principle
that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Thank you for visiting: Oscar Wilde Quotes.

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

You can also browse my large collection of Inspirational Quotes.

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie