Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes

  • Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction. – Oscar Wilde

    Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.– Oscar Wilde

  • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde

    Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.– Oscar Wilde

  • Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. – Oscar Wilde

    Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.– Oscar Wilde

  • Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.– Oscar Wilde

  • I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde

    I am not young enough to know everything.– Oscar Wilde

  • I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde

    I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.– Oscar Wilde

  • Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. – Oscar Wilde

    Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval.– Oscar Wilde

  • Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things – Oscar Wilde

    Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things– Oscar Wilde

  • I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. – Oscar Wilde

    I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.– Oscar Wilde

  • You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Oscar Wilde

    You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.– Oscar Wilde