Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Life Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Short Quotes

2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Attitude Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Identity Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

3. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Interesting Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

4. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Positive Short Quotes

5. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Witty Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Funny Motivational Quotes

6. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

7. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Famous Quotes, Clever Quotes

8. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Smart Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

9. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Truth Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

10. “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Love Is Quotes

11. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Quotes About Ideas

12. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Friendship Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Witty Quotes

13. “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

14. “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

— Oscar Wilde

15. “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

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes

16. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Witty Quotes

17. “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Friends Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Funny Friendship Quotes

18. “I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Clever Quotes, Witty Quotes

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

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Clever Quotes

20. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Witty Quotes

21. “No good deed goes unpunished.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Clever Quotes, Witty Quotes

22. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Life Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Clever Quotes

23. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes

24. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Failure Quotes, Experience Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

25. “The heart was made to be broken.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

26. “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

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Life Philosophy Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Influence Quotes

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

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Truth Quotes, Witty Quotes

28. “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

Featured in: Friendship Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

29. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Morality Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes

30. “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you’ll never be invited to a party.”

— Oscar Wilde

31. “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Personality Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Quotes About People, Character Quotes

32. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Witty Quotes

33. “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

34. “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Witty Quotes

35. “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

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Deep Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

36. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Famous Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

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

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

38. “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Witty Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

39. “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Witty Quotes

40. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Reflection Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Past Quotes, Regret Quotes

41. “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

Featured in: Time Quotes, Education Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Clever Quotes

42. “To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Deep Quotes, Witty Quotes

43. “If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”

— Oscar Wilde

44. “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Witty Quotes, Funny Friday Quotes

45. “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Positive Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

46. “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Quotes About Growing Up

47. “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

— Oscar Wilde

48. “Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Clever Quotes, Different Quotes

50. “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Silly Quotes, Witty Quotes