More Oscar Wilde Quotes To Savor

by allinspiration.com

Here is another collection of Oscar Wilde quotes and sayings. Literature fans – enjoy!

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
– Oscar Wilde

“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.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
– Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde

“True friends stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a mans last romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
– Oscar Wilde

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation…”
– Oscar Wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
– Oscar Wilde

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell”
– Oscar Wilde

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
– Oscar Wilde

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