Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”

— Oscar Wilde

202. “Who, being loved, is poor?”

— Oscar Wilde

203. “Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.”

— Oscar Wilde

204. “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

— Oscar Wilde

205. “What the hell is an oboe?”

— Oscar Wilde

206. “It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”

— Oscar Wilde

207. “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

— Oscar Wilde

208. “Always keep love in your heart.”

— Oscar Wilde

209. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

— Oscar Wilde

210. “It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

— Oscar Wilde

211. “Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

213. “I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.”

— Oscar Wilde

214. “Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.”

— Oscar Wilde

215. “A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”

— Oscar Wilde

216. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

218. “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

— Oscar Wilde

219. “Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”

— Oscar Wilde

220. “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

— Oscar Wilde

221. “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”

— Oscar Wilde

222. “Only the shallow know themselves.”

— Oscar Wilde

223. “The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”

— Oscar Wilde

224. “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”

— Oscar Wilde

225. “All criticism is a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

226. “I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”

— Oscar Wilde

227. “To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”

— Oscar Wilde

228. “When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

— Oscar Wilde

229. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

230. “I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”

— Oscar Wilde

231. “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

— Oscar Wilde

232. “Where your life leads you, you must go.”

— Oscar Wilde

233. “I won’t belong to a club that accepts me as a member.”

— Oscar Wilde

234. “And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.”

— Oscar Wilde

235. “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

— Oscar Wilde

236. “Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

— Oscar Wilde

237. “I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

— Oscar Wilde

238. “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.”

— Oscar Wilde

239. “It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”

— Oscar Wilde

240. “Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.”

— Oscar Wilde

241. “Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.”

— Oscar Wilde

242. “The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

— Oscar Wilde

243. “Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”

— Oscar Wilde

244. “Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.”

— Oscar Wilde

245. “When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”

— Oscar Wilde

246. “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

— Oscar Wilde

247. “The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.”

— Oscar Wilde

248. “I was wrong. God’s law is only Love.”

— Oscar Wilde

249. “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”

— Oscar Wilde

250. “History is a lie commonly agreed upon.”

— Oscar Wilde