Quotes by Oscar Wilde

About Oscar Wilde:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Oscar Wilde

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

Author Bio

  • NameOscar Wilde
  • DescriptionIrish writer and poet
  • AliasesOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • BornOctober 16, 1854
  • DiedNovember 30, 1900
  • CountryUnited Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
  • ProfessionPoet; Playwright; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Novelist
  • WorksThe Importance Of Being Earnest; The Picture Of Dorian Gray