231 Oscar Wilde Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Irish - Dramatist October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 Read full biography See also: Quotes about Oscar Wilde

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

Me People Feel Always Wrong

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

Thoughts People Someone Opinions

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Future Past Difference Only

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education Time Remember Nothing

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Happiness Go Others Cause Wherever

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

Best I Am Always Satisfied

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Progress Ambition True More

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Dreams World Dawn Rest

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Forgiveness Enemies Nothing Always

Top 10
Oscar Wilde
Quotes

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Man Relationship Woman Happy

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Forgiveness Time Children Parents

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Man Value Nothing Who

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Better Permanent Income Than

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

Life Getting Only Two

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Good Never Advice Only

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

Art Great Artist Things He

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth Man You Mask

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

Live Selfishness Others Living

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Man Past Rich Enough Back

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory Diary Us About

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life Money I Am Important

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything Wrong Popular

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Friendship Best Beginning Bad

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

World Shame Own Show

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Difficult Nothing Nose Large

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