---
title: "3 Lazy Quotes By Oscar Wilde"
description: "3 Lazy quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Lazy sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg"
---

> [To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg)

> [There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butterfly-can-see-it-from-afar/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/oscar-wilde-16_afar_there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butt_790652.jpg)

> [To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-demands-courage-that-is-why-so/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/oscar-wilde-16_atheism_to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-deman_842902.jpg)

## Other authors on Lazy

## More by Oscar Wilde

> [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

> [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/#itemlist",
            "name": "3 Lazy Quotes By Oscar Wilde",
            "numberOfItems": 3,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Oscar Wilde"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficult-thing-in-the-world-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.” — Oscar Wilde",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Oscar Wilde"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butterfly-can-see-it-from-afar/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/oscar-wilde-16_afar_there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butt_790652.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/oscar-wilde-16_afar_there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butt_790652.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/oscar-wilde-16_afar_there-is-a-tiny-yellow-daffodil-the-butt_790652.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could…” — Oscar Wilde",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Oscar Wilde"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-demands-courage-that-is-why-so/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/oscar-wilde-16_atheism_to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-deman_842902.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/oscar-wilde-16_atheism_to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-deman_842902.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/oscar-wilde-16_atheism_to-exercise-power-costs-effort-and-deman_842902.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they…” — Oscar Wilde",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/",
            "name": "Lazy Quotes by Oscar Wilde",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/oscar-wilde-16_difficult_to-do-nothing-at-all-is-the-most-difficu_342008.jpg"
            },
            "description": "3 Lazy quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Lazy sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Lazy",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Oscar Wilde",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lazy/oscar-wilde/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```