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Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

God, Cat, Stupidity

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Love, Life, Best Friend

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Vision, Different, Looks

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.753, GENERAL PRESS

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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

Love, Life, Crush

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

Genius, Talent

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Perseverance, Tired, Men

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Inspirational, Success, Hope

Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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

Funny, Wisdom, Witty

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Love, Inspirational, Positive

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Funny, Life, Marriage

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Life, Truth, Age

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

Some people always know the price, but not the value

People, Knows, Values

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Funny, Life, Hilarious

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Taken, Self, Already Taken

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Artist, People, Lovely

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.13, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Funny, Humor, Men

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Love, Funny, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Inspirational, Writing, Thinking

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Differentiate

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Nature, Bird, Environment

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Horse, Sex, Practice

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Philosophy

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

Needs, Life Is, Need You

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