Ifs Quotes by Oscar Wilde

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

— Oscar Wilde

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

And if it feels good... Feel it!

— Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

— Oscar Wilde

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

— Oscar Wilde

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

— Oscar Wilde

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

— Oscar Wilde

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

— Oscar Wilde

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

— Oscar Wilde

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

— Oscar Wilde

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a…

— Oscar Wilde

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when…

— Oscar Wilde

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint…

— Oscar Wilde

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does…

— Oscar Wilde

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and…

— Oscar Wilde

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he…

— Oscar Wilde

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his…

— Oscar Wilde

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in…

— Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour…

— Oscar Wilde

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury…

— Oscar Wilde

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

— Oscar Wilde

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time…

— Oscar Wilde

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should…

— Oscar Wilde

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):…

— Oscar Wilde

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

— Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

— Oscar Wilde

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

— Oscar Wilde

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

— Oscar Wilde

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

— Oscar Wilde

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

— Oscar Wilde

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

— Oscar Wilde

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

— Oscar Wilde

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

— Oscar Wilde

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

— Oscar Wilde

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

— Oscar Wilde