Oscar Wilde Quotes on Life

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I can resist anything except temptation.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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

There is no sin except stupidity.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

Oscar Wilde Quotes on Life part 2

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

No good deed goes unpunished.