Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”

— Oscar Wilde

152. “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.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Ambition Quotes, Progress Quotes

153. “Don’t feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

155. “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

— Oscar Wilde

156. “All art is quite useless.”

— Oscar Wilde

157. “Life is too short to be in a hurry.”

— Oscar Wilde

158. “What fire does not destroy, it hardens.”

— Oscar Wilde

159. “It was only in the theatre that I lived.”

— Oscar Wilde

160. “Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.”

— Oscar Wilde

161. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful.”

— Oscar Wilde

162. “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

— Oscar Wilde

163. “The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

— Oscar Wilde

164. “There is no sin except stupidity.”

— Oscar Wilde

165. “Life is a great disappointment.”

— Oscar Wilde

166. “Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”

— Oscar Wilde

167. “Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

168. “If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”

— Oscar Wilde

169. “I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”

— Oscar Wilde

170. “You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

— Oscar Wilde

171. “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

— Oscar Wilde

172. “Most people are boring and stupid.”

— Oscar Wilde

173. “Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.”

— Oscar Wilde

174. “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market place of any single thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

175. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

— Oscar Wilde

176. “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

— Oscar Wilde

177. “I can resist everything except temptation.”

— Oscar Wilde

178. “Wisdom comes with winters.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Winter Quotes

179. “Don’t use big words. They mean so little.”

— Oscar Wilde

180. “True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.”

— Oscar Wilde

181. “Progress is the realization of utopia.”

— Oscar Wilde

182. “Only good questions deserve good answers.”

— Oscar Wilde

183. “The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.”

— Oscar Wilde

184. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

— Oscar Wilde

185. “Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

— Oscar Wilde

186. “The best people to work for are me, myself and I.”

— Oscar Wilde

187. “When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”

— Oscar Wilde

188. “I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

— Oscar Wilde

189. “Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.”

— Oscar Wilde

190. “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

— Oscar Wilde

191. “Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.”

— Oscar Wilde

192. “Everything popular is wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

193. “There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

— Oscar Wilde

194. “Irony is wasted on the stupid.”

— Oscar Wilde

195. “Who, being loved, is poor?”

— Oscar Wilde

196. “The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

197. “Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”

— Oscar Wilde

198. “Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”

— Oscar Wilde

199. “Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.”

— Oscar Wilde

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Sexy Quotes

200. “The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.”

— Oscar Wilde