Oscar Wilde’s Iconic Quotations – Words of Wisdom and Wit

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

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

I can resist everything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

A good friend will always stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. – Oscar Wilde

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. – Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. – Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde’s Iconic Quotations – Words of Wisdom and Wit part 2

I don’t want to go to heaven; none of my friends are there. – Oscar Wilde

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. – Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. – Oscar Wilde

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. – Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork. – Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. – Oscar Wilde

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

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately. – Oscar Wilde

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have somebody find out. – Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius. – Oscar Wilde

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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

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

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines who you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius. – Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde

It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. – Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde