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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JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.

Oscar Wilde

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Oscar Wilde

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Oscar Wilde

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Oscar Wilde

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there ...

Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time

Oscar Wilde

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

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Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.

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No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

Oscar Wilde

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Everything is about sex, except sex

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Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Oscar Wilde

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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