Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Getting

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Men

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Beginning, Romance

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Live, Living, Others

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Work, Unique

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Real, Soul, Cannot

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde

Best, Satisfied, Tastes

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Someone, Thoughts, Else

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Country, America, Between

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Temptation, Except

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Woman, Her

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Either

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Great, Artist

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Him, Friends

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Experience, Nothing

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Months, Six

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

Idea, Dangerous, Unworthy

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Drinking, Curse

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

Book, Enjoy, Cannot

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Dangerous, Sincerity

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Become, Mothers

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Giving, Touch

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Woman, Nothing

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

Strength, Courage, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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