Oscar Wilde was a poet, playwright, novelist and short-story writer during the late Victorian era in London. He is known as being some of the bluntest authors when it came to writing about reality.
He was known for not holding back. He shared his opinion on everything you can think of; he also loved putting a spotlight on social beliefs he did not believe in.
Most of the time he mocked human behavior, and for a good reason too. He could see through people’s actions and wrote about them in a humorous yet thoughtful way. His quotes are so true that they sometimes hurt.
Oscar Wild was a wise man that thankfully left us a lot of glorious things to read. We went through his saying and gathered 50 of the most brilliant Oscar Wilde quotes.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
True friends stab you in the front.
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
To define is to limit.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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