Last updated on May 5, 2022 by Roger Kaufman
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author and also a poet. After exploring his writing, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the 1880s.
Today he is remembered for plays and also beautiful quotes and words.
The below in a collection of top Oscar Wilde Quotations, which I quoted here.
Humor – Quotes Oscar Wilde
“Some make people happy wherever they go, other people happy whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde
“We remain in a time where unnecessary things are our only needs.”
“You like someone not because of their looks, their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song that only you can hear.”
“Liking yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“To define means to limit.” - Oscar Wilde
“With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who couldn’t be happy?”
“Narcissism is not living the way you want to live, but asking others to live the way you want to live.”
“I'm so smart that I often don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.”
“You can never be overdressed or overqualified.” - Oscar Wilde
“Everything that has to do with sex worldwide, except sex. Sex is about power.” - Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing on the planet worse than being talked about not being talked about.”
“Those who find unsightly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. That is a Error. Those who find stunning definition in beautiful things are the educated. There is hope for these. They are the chosen ones for whom beautiful points only mean approval. There is no sense of a moral or unethical book. Publications are well-made or terribly written. That's all."
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
“A point is not always true because a man dies for it.” – Oscar Wilde
“You should never rely on a woman to tell you what she really is Age communicates.”
“The fact is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde
“Quote is a functional alternative to joke.”
Life - Oscar Wilde quotes - wisdom
"The Man is least of all himself when he speaks in his very own individuality. Give him a mask and he will tell the truth.”
“There are only two types of people who are truly fascinating: people who definitely understand everything and people who understand absolutely nothing.”
“Constantly forgive your opponents; nothing annoys her more.”
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
“Whatever in masses, consisting of small quantities.”
“Constantly forgive your opponents; nothing irritates her so much.” - Oscar Wilde
“The face of a man is his memoirs. A woman’s face is her fiction.”
“It is silly to divide people into both excellent and poor. People are either charming or tiresome.”
“We are each our own evil, and we too make this world our devil.”
“It is what you read when you don’t need it that determines what you will be when you can’t support it.” - Oscar Wilde
“I have the easiest preferences. I am constantly satisfied with the very best.”
“I can never travel without my diary, you should always have something sensational to keep you reading.”
“Those who live in their methods experience a lack of creative imagination.”
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the original sin of the world. If the caveman had actually known how to laugh, the story would certainly have been different.”
“Principles are simply the way of thinking we adopt toward people we personally dislike.”
“You enjoy a person not because of their looks or their clothes or their fancy cars and trucks, but because they sing a tune that you can just hear.”
“Education is a remarkable point, but it is good to remember now and then that absolutely nothing worth knowing can be educated.”
“A cynic is a man who understands the value of every little thing and also the value of nothing.”
“If you don’t enjoy reading a book over and over again, there’s no point in reviewing it in any way.” - Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my feelings. I want to use it, enjoy it and master it.”
“Life is far too important to talk about seriously.”
Love – Oscar Wilde quotes
“The true essence of love is unpredictability.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“Be alone, everyone else is already taken.”
“The secret of love stands over the mystery of death.” - Oscar Wilde
“How can you expect a woman to be happy with a man who demands to treat her like a normal human being?”
“Never love a person who treats you as if you were average.”
“You will surely always like me. - Oscar Wilde
“Experience is just the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“Women are meant to be liked, not understood.”
“The fact is rarely pure and never fundamental.”
“Loving yourself is the beginning of a long-lasting romance.”
“Only simple individuals dazzle at breakfast.” - Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. This is their catastrophe.
Words of wisdom – top Oscar Wilde Quotations
"We're all in the seamless gutter, but some of us are looking at the celebrities."
“Leaders who called the world immoral are books that show the world their own compassion.”
“Most in individuals are other people. Their thoughts are the views of others, their life a facial expression, their enthusiasm a quote.”
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only discover his path by the moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”- Oscar Wilde
“I’m not young enough to understand every little thing.” - Oscar Wilde
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
“There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about what is not being talked about.”
“To be alive is the rarest thing on the planet. Most people exist, that’s all.”
“Today, individuals understand both the value of everything and the value of nothing
“The culture usually forgives the criminal; she never forgives the dreamer.”
“Nothing can heal the heart but the senses, just as absolutely nothing can heal the senses but the heart.”
“Real close friends stab you in the front.”
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a most delicate nature to sympathize with the success of a friend.”
“The best feeling in the world is to do something good anonymously – and to let someone learn how to do it.”
"Live! Live the amazing life that remains within you! Don't let anything get to you. Always look for new feelings. Don’t be afraid of absolutely nothing.”
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Source: JSE2013
