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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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Oscar Wilde

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Oscar Wilde

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Oscar Wilde

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Oscar Wilde

Realmente el amor es algo maravilloso: es más bello que las esmeraldas y más raro que los finos ópalos.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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