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Oscar Wilde Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fa%2Fa7%2FOscar_Wilde_Sarony.jpg%2F220px-Oscar_Wilde_Sarony.jpg&hash=09f1b4258fd99916d2703f6eb58b8c4f09e272eb)
An Irish writer and poet. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Here are some famous quotes by Oscar Wilde.
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Who being loved is poor?
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All art is quite useless.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Alas I am dying beyond my means.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Men become old but they never become good.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
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Men know life too early women know life too late.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
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The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
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When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
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Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
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To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions you get the result.
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Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
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To give and not expect return that is what lies at the heart of love.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
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I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except of course language.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose.
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At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship wheather in marriage or in friendship is conversation.
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To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Where there is no exaggeration there is no love and where there is no love there is no understanding.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better they don't know anything at all.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
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Perhaps after all America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich and that is the poor.
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Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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Lots of people act well but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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The intellect is not a serious thing and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays that is all.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions their lives a mimicry their passions a quotation.
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America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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The typewriting machine when played with expression is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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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.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
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A man's very highest moment is I have no doubt at all when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop all monsters and dust with everything priced above its proper value.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
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I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
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Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence their absolute incoherence their absurd want of meaning their entire lack of style.