People Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Some people always know the price, but not the value

— Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people.

— Oscar Wilde

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

— Oscar Wilde

The only real people are the people who never existed

— Oscar Wilde

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

— Oscar Wilde

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“One can always be kind to people whom one cares nothing about”

— Oscar Wilde

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

— Oscar Wilde

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

— Oscar Wilde

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

— Oscar Wilde

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

— Oscar Wilde

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the…

— Oscar Wilde

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow…

— 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

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

— Oscar Wilde

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done…

— Oscar Wilde

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have…

— Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

— Oscar Wilde

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.…

— Oscar Wilde

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the…

— Oscar Wilde

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is…

— Oscar Wilde

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of…

— Oscar Wilde

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were…

— 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

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It…

— Oscar Wilde

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies…

— Oscar Wilde

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes…

— Oscar Wilde

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…

— Oscar Wilde

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,…

— Oscar Wilde

People are either charming or tedious.

— Oscar Wilde

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

— Oscar Wilde

Most people are boring and stupid.

— Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde