Oscar Wilde Quotes

Motivational Quotes of Oscar Wilde

Here are some motivational quotes of Oscar Wilde you may like to read.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. ”

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

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

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

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.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

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

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

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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?

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Consistency is the last refuge of the 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.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. I can resist everything but temptation.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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

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

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.  

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Who, being loved, is poor?

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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