Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."
494 Quotes
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
Oscar Wilde
"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent"
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
"Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."
Oscar Wilde
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde
"America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."
Oscar Wilde
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
Oscar Wilde
"Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no man Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betray Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reign Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honor, all things fade, Save Treason and the dagger of her trade, Or Murder with his silent bloody fee."
Oscar Wilde
"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
Oscar Wilde
"The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure."
Oscar Wilde
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
Oscar Wilde
"The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole."
Oscar Wilde
"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
Oscar Wilde
"You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
Oscar Wilde
"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life."
Oscar Wilde
"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
Oscar Wilde
"The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
Oscar Wilde
"Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his path And cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heart May the Lord Christ enter in?"
Oscar Wilde
"And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
Oscar Wilde
✉️

Get more quotes like Oscar Wilde's — every morning.

Join thousands of wisdom seekers getting daily quotes from 300,000+ curated sources.

Free forever. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.