Inspirational Quotes by Oscar Wilde

All criticism is a form of autobiography

— Oscar Wilde

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

— Oscar Wilde

It is what we fear that happens to us.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

— Oscar Wilde

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

— Oscar Wilde

Any place that we love becomes our world.

— Oscar Wilde

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

— Oscar Wilde

Always be a little unexpected.

— Oscar Wilde

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

— Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

— Oscar Wilde

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

— Oscar Wilde

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

— Oscar Wilde

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

— Oscar Wilde

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

— Oscar Wilde

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to…

— Oscar Wilde

“That is one of the great secrets of life. Now days most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and…

— Oscar Wilde

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water…

— Oscar Wilde

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into…

— Oscar Wilde

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

— Oscar Wilde

“We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what…

— Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about…

— Oscar Wilde

“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call…

— Oscar Wilde

“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not…

— Oscar Wilde

I have a simple taste, only the best.

— Oscar Wilde

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

— Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

— Oscar Wilde

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...

— Oscar Wilde

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

— Oscar Wilde

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

— Oscar Wilde

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

— Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

— Oscar Wilde

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

— Oscar Wilde

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

— Oscar Wilde