Oscar Wilde Quotes
+62The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.
- Oscar Wilde
+60Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
+41No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
- Oscar Wilde
+40Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
+40I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
+38To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde
+30The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- Oscar Wilde
+26I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
+22The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
+22Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
+20The Success Principle – Appeals To Everyone
The Success Principle – Appeals To Everyone
+16Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde
+16His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
- Oscar Wilde
+16If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
+12The heart was made to be broken.
- Oscar Wilde
+12I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.
- Oscar Wilde
+11The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
- Oscar Wilde
+5Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses.
- Oscar Wilde
+5True friends stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
+5One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
+4A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Oscar Wilde
+3I think that God in creating Man some what over estimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde
+3Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
+3I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
- Oscar Wilde
+2Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
+2By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- Oscar Wilde
+1There are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield to.
- Oscar Wilde
+1A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
- Oscar Wilde
+1A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
+1A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde
+1The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
+1The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
+1He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
- Oscar Wilde
+1A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
+1All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde
+1Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
