Top 50 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Love, Life and Inspiration

1. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”-Oscar Wilde

2. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”-Oscar Wilde

3. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”-Oscar Wilde

4. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”-Oscar Wilde

5. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”-Oscar Wilde

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

7. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.-Oscar Wilde

8. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”-Oscar Wilde

9. You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”-Oscar Wilde

10. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”-Oscar Wilde

11. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”-Oscar Wilde

12. “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”-Oscar Wilde

13. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

14. “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”-Oscar Wilde

15. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”-Oscar Wilde

16. “I am not young enough to know everything.”-Oscar Wilde

17. “The heart was made to be broken.”-Oscar Wilde

18.  “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.”-Oscar Wilde

19. “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”-Oscar Wilde

20. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”-Oscar Wilde

21. “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”-Oscar Wilde

22. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”-Oscar Wilde

23. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”-Oscar Wilde

24. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”-Oscar Wilde

25. “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

26. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”-Oscar Wilde

27. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”-Oscar Wilde

28. “I can resist anything except temptation.-Oscar Wilde

29. “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”-Oscar Wilde

30. “To define is to limit.”-Oscar Wilde

31. “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

32. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”-Oscar Wilde

33. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”-Oscar Wilde

34. “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”-Oscar Wilde

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

36. “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”-Oscar Wilde

37. “Who, being loved, is poor?”-Oscar Wilde

38. “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”-Oscar Wilde

39. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”-Oscar Wilde

40. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”-Oscar Wilde

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

42. “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”-Oscar Wilde

43. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”-Oscar Wilde

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

45. “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”-Oscar Wilde

46. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”-Oscar Wilde

47. “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.”-Oscar Wilde

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

49. “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”-Oscar Wilde

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