Tuesday, October 10, 2017

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde was very famous Irish Writer born in Dublin on 16 Oct 1854,he wrote many plays,fictions,short stories and poetry who inspired the world.He became famous for his involvement in philosophy of aestheticism.His famous plays are The importance of Being Earnest,Salome,Lady Windermere's Fan,An Ideal Husband etc.

His Quotes have wisdom, positivity and humor.His Quotes are the reflection of societies reality.He expressed all these quotes in a very beautiful manner.

We have compiled 109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes that you can relate yourself with.These Quotes will inspire and direct you always because what he said is already in you, but his quotes will throw light and awake you.



109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes


1-Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

2-If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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

4-No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

5-Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

6-Men become old, but they never become good.

7-One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

8-Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

9-Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

10-To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

11-Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

12-Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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

14-With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

15-Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

16-I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

17-The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

18-It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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

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

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

21-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.

22-If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

23-To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

25-The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

26-You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

27-Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

28-A good friend will always stab you in the front.

29-Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes
30-Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

31-The heart was made to be broken.

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

33-There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

34-To define is to limit.

35-Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

37-Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

38-Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

39-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.

40-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.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

41-The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

42-Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

43-There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 

44-Genius is born—not paid.

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

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

46-We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

47-There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

48-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.

49-Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

50-We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

51-Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

52-Everything in moderation, including moderation.

53-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.

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

55-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.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

56-The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

57-Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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

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

60-Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of failures.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

61-The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

62-The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

63-It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

64-Women are made to be loved, not understood.

65-I can resist everything except temptation.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

66-Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

67-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.

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

69-Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

70-This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

71-There is no sin except stupidity.

72-It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

74-I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

75-Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

76-Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

78-Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

79-It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

80-It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

81-Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

82-With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

83-Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

84-In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

85-Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

86-One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

87-Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

88-Everything popular is wrong.

89-Hatred is blind, as well as love.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

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

92-Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

93-When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

94-No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

95-They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

96-What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

97-Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

98-True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

99-Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly.

100-What fire does not destroy, it hardens.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

101-Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

102-The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

103-A mask tells us more than a face.

104-To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

105-Don't use big words. They mean so little.

109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes

106-The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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

108-The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

109-Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.


We hope our these 109 Wisest Oscar Wilde Quotes inspired and motivated you and will help you always in life.

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