Giving Quotes by Oscar Wilde

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

— Oscar Wilde

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

— Oscar Wilde

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

— Oscar Wilde

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

— Oscar Wilde

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

— Oscar Wilde

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

— Oscar Wilde

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

— Oscar Wilde

Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.

— Oscar Wilde

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

— Oscar Wilde

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for…

— Oscar Wilde

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they…

— Oscar Wilde

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

— Oscar Wilde

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life…

— Oscar Wilde

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

— Oscar Wilde

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality…

— Oscar Wilde

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.…

— Oscar Wilde

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try…

— Oscar Wilde

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,…

— Oscar Wilde

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

— Oscar Wilde

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to…

— Oscar Wilde

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

— Oscar Wilde

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…

— Oscar Wilde

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

— Oscar Wilde

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.…

— Oscar Wilde

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall…

— Oscar Wilde

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us…

— Oscar Wilde

Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When…

— Oscar Wilde

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why…

— Oscar Wilde

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

— Oscar Wilde

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

— Oscar Wilde

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

— Oscar Wilde

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

— Oscar Wilde

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable…

— Oscar Wilde

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty…

— Oscar Wilde

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

— Oscar Wilde

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best…

— Oscar Wilde

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde