Top 500 Oscar Wilde Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

355. “A kiss may ruin a human life.”

— Oscar Wilde

356. “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

357. “The supreme vice is shallowness.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

360. “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

— Oscar Wilde

361. “For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

364. “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

365. “Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

367. “Hearts Live By Being Wounded.”

— Oscar Wilde

368. “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

372. “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

376. “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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

379. “Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

382. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

385. “I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

387. “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

388. “The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

— Oscar Wilde

389. “I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”

— Oscar Wilde

390. “I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

392. “I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

— Oscar Wilde

393. “Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

395. “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

396. “The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”

— Oscar Wilde

397. “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

398. “Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

— Oscar Wilde

399. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde