Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 13

• A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrite, Men, Doe

  16 Copy quote

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Class, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

  16 Copy quote

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

  50 Copy quote

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Knowledge, Funny Thanksgiving

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

  72 Copy quote

• I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sorrow, Might, Helping

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1766, e-artnow

  13 Copy quote

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

  33 Copy quote

• The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Simplicity

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

  29 Copy quote

• I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Knowing, Giving, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

  49 Copy quote

• Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Littles, Action

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.95, Oxford University Press on Demand

  13 Copy quote

• Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Purpose, Dressing Well

  43 Copy quote

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, World, Maps

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

  43 Copy quote

• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Sex, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

  24 Copy quote

• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

  70 Copy quote

• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly Things

  19 Copy quote

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Self, Shining

  13 Copy quote

• Hearts Live By Being Wounded

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Broken Heart, Losing Friends

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

  59 Copy quote

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Simple, Inspire

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Courier Corporation

  21 Copy quote

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Strong, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

  12 Copy quote

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

  66 Copy quote

• Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Stars, Pain

  45 Copy quote

• Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Sight, Enough

  19 Copy quote

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Brain, Events, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

  12 Copy quote

• Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Admiration, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.119, Oxford University Press on Demand

  17 Copy quote

• You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Indifferent

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.10, Oxford University Press on Demand

  14 Copy quote

• Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

  61 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Alfred Douglas

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

George Bernard Shaw

James Joyce

William Shakespeare

Jane Austen