Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

103. “Its a beautiful woman’s fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.”

— Oscar Wilde

104. “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

— Oscar Wilde

105. “Whenever life sucks, remember you’re going to die someday.”

— Oscar Wilde

106. “She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

— Oscar Wilde

107. “A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.”

— Oscar Wilde

108. “The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

— Oscar Wilde

109. “It is perfectly monstrous,? he said, at last, ’the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

— Oscar Wilde

110. “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.”

— Oscar Wilde

111. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

— Oscar Wilde

112. “You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.”

— Oscar Wilde

113. “Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.”

— Oscar Wilde

114. “They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

— Oscar Wilde

115. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.”

— Oscar Wilde

116. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”

— Oscar Wilde

117. “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

— Oscar Wilde

118. “Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

119. “It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

— Oscar Wilde

120. “Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.”

— Oscar Wilde

121. “Nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

122. “Talent borrows, genius steals!”

— Oscar Wilde

123. “Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

124. “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”

— Oscar Wilde

125. “To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

— Oscar Wilde

126. “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

— Oscar Wilde

127. “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

— Oscar Wilde

128. “The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.”

— Oscar Wilde

129. “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.”

— Oscar Wilde

130. “Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

— Oscar Wilde

131. “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

— Oscar Wilde

132. “What of Art? -It is a malady. – Love? -An Illusion. – Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. – You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. – What are you? -To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde

133. “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”

— Oscar Wilde

134. “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

— Oscar Wilde

135. “Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”

— Oscar Wilde

136. “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

— Oscar Wilde

137. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren’t worse.”

— Oscar Wilde

138. “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

— Oscar Wilde

139. “The world belongs to the discontented.”

— Oscar Wilde

140. “Punctuality is the thief of time.”

— Oscar Wilde

141. “Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”

— Oscar Wilde

142. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

— Oscar Wilde

143. “Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”

— Oscar Wilde

144. “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

— Oscar Wilde

145. “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

— Oscar Wilde

146. “The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.”

— Oscar Wilde

147. “To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”

— Oscar Wilde

148. “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

— Oscar Wilde

149. “It’s beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.”

— Oscar Wilde

150. “Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

— Oscar Wilde