65 Oscar Wilde Quotes That Will Motivate You

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65 Best Oscar Wilde Quotes

1. “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

2. “To define is to limit.” – Oscar Wilde

3. “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” – Oscar Wilde

4. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

5. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

6. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” – Oscar Wilde

7. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde

8. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

9. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde

10. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

11. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

12. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

13. “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

14. “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” – Oscar Wilde

15. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

16. “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde

17. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” – Oscar Wilde

18. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” – Oscar Wilde

19. “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” – Oscar Wilde

21. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” – Oscar Wilde

22. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

23. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde

24. “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” – Oscar Wilde

25. “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

26. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

27. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

28. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde

29. “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.” – Oscar Wilde

30. “I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde

31. “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” – Oscar Wilde

32. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

33. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde

34. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde

35. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

36. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

37. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

38. “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.” – Oscar Wilde

39. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

40. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” – Oscar Wilde

41. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde

42.“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” – Oscar Wilde

43. “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” – Oscar Wilde

44. “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” – Oscar Wilde

45. “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” – Oscar Wilde

46. “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.” – Oscar Wilde

47. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde

48. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” – Oscar Wilde

49. “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” – Oscar Wilde

50. “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” – Oscar Wilde

51. “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” – Oscar Wilde

52. “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.” – Oscar Wilde

53. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” – Oscar Wilde

54. “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.” – Oscar Wilde

55. “The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” – Oscar Wilde

56. “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.” – Oscar Wilde

57. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” – Oscar Wilde

58. “The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.” – Oscar Wilde

59. “It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” – Oscar Wilde

61. “No good deed goes unpunished.” – Oscar Wilde

62. “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” – Oscar Wilde

63. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” – Oscar Wilde

64. “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” – Oscar Wilde

65. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” – Oscar Wilde

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