Inspirational Quotes by Oscar Wilde · Page 4

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

— Oscar Wilde

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

— Oscar Wilde

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

— Oscar Wilde

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

— Oscar Wilde

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

— Oscar Wilde

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

— Oscar Wilde

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

— Oscar Wilde

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

— Oscar Wilde

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.

— Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

— Oscar Wilde

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

— Oscar Wilde

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...

— Oscar Wilde

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

— Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

— Oscar Wilde

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

— Oscar Wilde

“A grapefruit is only a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.”

— Oscar Wilde

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

— Oscar Wilde

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

— Oscar Wilde

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

— Oscar Wilde

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

— Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

— Oscar Wilde

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

— Oscar Wilde

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

— Oscar Wilde

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

— Oscar Wilde

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

— Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

— Oscar Wilde

Some people always know the price, but not the value

— Oscar Wilde

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

— Oscar Wilde