Quotes by Oscar Wilde
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty- five for years.
- Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
- Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
- Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.
- Oscar Wilde
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anyone in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Oscar Wilde