Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

— Oscar Wilde

352. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

— Oscar Wilde

353. “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

— Oscar Wilde

354. “Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.”

— Oscar Wilde

355. “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

— Oscar Wilde

356. “Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.”

— Oscar Wilde

357. “Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

— Oscar Wilde

358. “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

— Oscar Wilde

359. “Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”

— Oscar Wilde

360. “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”

— Oscar Wilde

361. “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

— Oscar Wilde

362. “The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

— Oscar Wilde

363. “To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”

— Oscar Wilde

364. “It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.”

— Oscar Wilde

365. “Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.”

— Oscar Wilde

366. “I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.”

— Oscar Wilde

367. “People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

— Oscar Wilde

368. “The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”

— Oscar Wilde

369. “But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

— Oscar Wilde

370. “I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.”

— Oscar Wilde

371. “A kiss may ruin a human life.”

— Oscar Wilde

372. “It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.”

— Oscar Wilde

373. “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

— Oscar Wilde

374. “One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”

— Oscar Wilde

375. “The supreme vice is shallowness.”

— Oscar Wilde

376. “Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.”

— Oscar Wilde

377. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

— Oscar Wilde

378. “My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

— Oscar Wilde

379. “Hearts Live By Being Wounded.”

— Oscar Wilde

380. “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

— Oscar Wilde

381. “When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”

— Oscar Wilde

382. “Disobedience is man’s original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

383. “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

384. “I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

— Oscar Wilde

385. “One should absorb the color of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

386. “Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.”

— Oscar Wilde

387. “Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.”

— Oscar Wilde

388. “God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.”

— Oscar Wilde

389. “Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”

— Oscar Wilde

390. “The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.”

— Oscar Wilde

391. “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

— Oscar Wilde

392. “It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon.”

— Oscar Wilde

393. “Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.”

— Oscar Wilde

394. “Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.”

— Oscar Wilde

395. “To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

— Oscar Wilde

396. “Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

— Oscar Wilde

397. “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

— Oscar Wilde

398. “To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.”

— Oscar Wilde

399. “Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.”

— Oscar Wilde

400. “Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”

— Oscar Wilde