--- title: "Best People Quotations by Oscar Wilde" description: "151 People quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more People sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/oscar-wilde-16_feel_can-they-feel-i-wonder-those-white-silen_648619.jpg" --- > [Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/can-they-feel-i-wonder-those-white-silent-people-we-call-the-dead/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/oscar-wilde-16_feel_can-they-feel-i-wonder-those-white-silen_648619.jpg) > [The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-happiness-of-a-married-man-depends-on-the-people-he-has-not/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/oscar-wilde-16_happiness_the-happiness-of-a-married-man-depends-o_540384.jpg) > [Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-try-to-lead-the-people-can-only-do-so-by-following-the-mob-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/oscar-wilde-16_be-prepared_those-who-try-to-lead-the-people-can-onl_1967698.jpg) > [The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-people-who-have-adored-me-there-have-not-been-very-many-but-there/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ce/oscar-wilde-16_care_the-people-who-have-adored-me-there-have_1199359.jpg) > [The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-supreme-object-of-life-is-to-live-few-people-live-it-is-true-life/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9a/oscar-wilde-16_dream_the-supreme-object-of-life-is-to-live-fe_1762386.jpg) > [Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/long-engagements-give-people-the-opportunity-of-finding-out-each/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/oscar-wilde-16_advisable_long-engagements-give-people-the-opportu_2769743.jpg) > [There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-is-more-to-be-said-for-stupidity-than-people-imagine-personally/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38a/oscar-wilde-16_admiration_there-is-more-to-be-said-for-stupidity-t_1321364.jpg) > [In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-invention-there-is-no-such/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/oscar-wilde-16_art_in-fact-the-whole-of-japan-is-a-pure-inv_276392.jpg) > [When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/when-people-talk-to-us-about-others-they-are-usually-dull-when-they/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/oscar-wilde-16_dull_when-people-talk-to-us-about-others-they_930524.jpg) > [Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/do-you-know-that-i-am-afraid-that-good-people-do-a-great-deal-of-harm/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ca/oscar-wilde-16_badness_do-you-know-that-i-am-afraid-that-good-p_923987.jpg) > [I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-quite-agree-with-dr-nordau-s-assertion-that-all-men-of-genius-are/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/oscar-wilde-16_agree_i-quite-agree-with-dr-nordau-s-assertion_921824.jpg) > [The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-only-people-i-would-care-to-be-with-now-are-artists-and-people/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/373/oscar-wilde-16_art_the-only-people-i-would-care-to-be-with_2998370.jpg) > [“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/speak-frankly-i-am-not-in-favour-of-long-engagements-they-give-people/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/oscar-wilde-16_advisable_speak-frankly-i-am-not-in-favour-of-long_770938.jpg) > [London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/london-is-too-full-of-fogs-and-serious-people-whether-the-fogs/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/oscar-wilde-16_full_london-is-too-full-of-fogs-and-serious-p_2753726.jpg) > [People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/people-who-count-their-chickens-before-they-are-hatched-act-very/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b92/oscar-wilde-16_chickens_people-who-count-their-chickens-before-t_1949749.jpg) > [Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/christ-did-not-die-to-save-people-but-to-teach-people-how-to-save/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/oscar-wilde-16_christ_christ-did-not-die-to-save-people-but-to_2848300.jpg) > [I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-like-wagner-s-music-better-than-anybody-s-it-is-so-loud-that-one/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/oscar-wilde-16_funny_i-like-wagner-s-music-better-than-anybod_2193258.jpg) > [The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-moment-that-an-artist-takes-notice-of-what-other-people-want-and/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/oscar-wilde-16_art_the-moment-that-an-artist-takes-notice-o_200864.jpg) > [If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-there-is-anything-more-annoying-in-the-world-than-having-people/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_annoying_if-there-is-anything-more-annoying-in-th_1469393.jpg) > [Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/most-people-die-of-a-sort-of-creeping-common-sense-and-discover-when/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d9/oscar-wilde-16_common_most-people-die-of-a-sort-of-creeping-co_180514.jpg) > [Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/romantic-art-deals-with-the-exception-and-with-the-individual-good/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/oscar-wilde-16_art_romantic-art-deals-with-the-exception-an_1054485.jpg) > [In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/in-england-people-actually-try-to-be-brilliant-at-breakfast-that-is/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/oscar-wilde-16_breakfast_in-england-people-actually-try-to-be-bri_398540.jpg) > [People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/people-sometimes-inquire-what-form-of-government-is-most-suitable-for/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/841/oscar-wilde-16_answers_people-sometimes-inquire-what-form-of-go_2473134.jpg) > [I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-dislike-modern-memoirs-they-are-generally-written-by-people-who/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/oscar-wilde-16_autobiography_i-dislike-modern-memoirs-they-are-genera_1245431.jpg) > [Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/without-order-nothing-can-exist-without-chaos-nothing-can-evolve-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd4/oscar-wilde-16_chaos_without-order-nothing-can-exist-without_2189816.jpg) > [Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/many-people-become-bankrupt-through-having-invested-too-heavily-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/oscar-wilde-16_fear-of-failure_many-people-become-bankrupt-through-havi_19461.jpg) > [Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/thinking-is-the-most-unhealthy-thing-in-the-world-and-people-die-of-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/oscar-wilde-16_catching_thinking-is-the-most-unhealthy-thing-in_1714176.jpg) > [A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/a-work-of-art-is-the-unique-result-of-a-unique-temperament-its-beauty-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/oscar-wilde-16_art_a-work-of-art-is-the-unique-result-of-a_1455577.jpg) > [For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/for-life-is-terribly-deficient-in-form-its-catastrophes-happen-in-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b8/oscar-wilde-16_catastrophe_for-life-is-terribly-deficient-in-form-i_1861798.jpg) > [I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-love-scandals-about-other-people-but-scandals-about-myself-don-t/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a0/oscar-wilde-16_charm_i-love-scandals-about-other-people-but-s_1033524.jpg) > [The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-proper-basis-for-marriage-is-mutual-misunderstanding-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/oscar-wilde-16_age_the-proper-basis-for-marriage-is-mutual_3080930.jpg) ## Other authors on People - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 856 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 843 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 724 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 624 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 488 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 367 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. 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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. 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