Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Throughout his life he has inspired many people and had brought deep thoughts about life. here are some best quotes of Oscar wilde.
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”
“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”