Oscar Wilde quotes

Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet, renowned for his wit and flamboyant style. His works include celebrated plays such as "The Importance of Being Earnest" and the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray." He remains a symbol of artistic brilliance and individuality, as well as a figure of tragedy due to his persecution for his identity. Here are 1196 of his quotes:

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.

Oscar Wilde

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Oscar Wilde

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.

Oscar Wilde

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

Oscar Wilde

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

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

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde