Oscar Wilde Quotes About Inspiration

• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Truth, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

• I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

  His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Lying, Liars

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

• We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiration, Greek, Achieve

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