Thinking Quotes by Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

— Oscar Wilde

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

— Oscar Wilde

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

— Oscar Wilde

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

— Oscar Wilde

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

— Oscar Wilde

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

— Oscar Wilde

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

— Oscar Wilde

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

— Oscar Wilde

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they…

— Oscar Wilde

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury…

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should…

— Oscar Wilde

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do…

— Oscar Wilde

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,”

— Oscar Wilde

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

— Oscar Wilde

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever…

— Oscar Wilde

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,…

— Oscar Wilde

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but…

— Oscar Wilde

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony…

— Oscar Wilde

Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her…

— Oscar Wilde

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise…

— Oscar Wilde

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see…

— Oscar Wilde

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…

— Oscar Wilde

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for…

— Oscar Wilde

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but…

— Oscar Wilde

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

— Oscar Wilde

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

— Oscar Wilde

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

— Oscar Wilde

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

— Oscar Wilde

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a…

— Oscar Wilde

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses…

— Oscar Wilde

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.…

— Oscar Wilde

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of…

— Oscar Wilde

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to…

— Oscar Wilde

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are…

— Oscar Wilde

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

— Oscar Wilde