Inspirational Quotes by Oscar Wilde · Page 3

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

— Oscar Wilde

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

— Oscar Wilde

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

— Oscar Wilde

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

— Oscar Wilde

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

— Oscar Wilde

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

— Oscar Wilde

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

— Oscar Wilde

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

— Oscar Wilde

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

— Oscar Wilde

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

— Oscar Wilde

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

— Oscar Wilde

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

— Oscar Wilde

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

— Oscar Wilde

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

— Oscar Wilde

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

— Oscar Wilde

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

— Oscar Wilde

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

— Oscar Wilde

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

— Oscar Wilde

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

— Oscar Wilde

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

— Oscar Wilde

Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!

— Oscar Wilde

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

— Oscar Wilde

“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”

— Oscar Wilde

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

— Oscar Wilde

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

— Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

— Oscar Wilde

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

— Oscar Wilde

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

— Oscar Wilde

“Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

— Oscar Wilde

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

— Oscar Wilde