Oscar Wilde quotes page 1

1854-1900, Irish playwright, author and poet

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde

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

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to
commit.
Oscar Wilde

Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.
Oscar Wilde

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden
to them.
Oscar Wilde

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde

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

The English country gentleman galloping after the fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde

Life's aim, if it has one, is simply to be always looking for temptations. There are not nearly
enough. I sometimes pass a whole day without coming across a single one. It is quite
dreadful. It makes one so nervous about the future.
Oscar Wilde

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

Good looks are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference
between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good
reputation.
Oscar Wilde

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work
pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist.
It is far too easy.
Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might
pick them up.
Oscar Wilde

Everything you have said today seems to me excessively immoral. It has been most
interesting, listening to you.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel certain that they mean
something else.
Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public
- and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship,
love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
Oscar Wilde

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live; to be
lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde

Give me the luxuries and anyone else can have the necessaries.
Oscar Wilde

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