Oscar Wilde Quotes About Travel

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

• It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Cities, San Francisco

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

• Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Fall, Home

• I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Disappointment, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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